Thank you very much. I appreciate those opening comments.
Again, I want to draw the committee's attention to O'Brien and Bosc, chapter 20, page 1068, which states that “public servants have been excused from commenting on the policy decisions made by the government”. We often tend to go down that road in questioning our public servants, so I would just ask that we keep our comments to the nature of the act itself and to the review we're undertaking here.
Mr. McGuinty, you may kick us off, please. You have seven minutes.