Thanks.
I'll start by addressing some questions to Mr. Hamilton.
In the earlier part of my career I spent a couple of years in management consulting, and one of the things we were often tasked to do when looking at both public sector and private sector organizations was to ask questions such as what the mandate of the organization was, how you deliver the services put in the mandate, and then how you resource those things effectively.
We've had a lot of questions here about cuts and whatnot, and we can argue the methodology of presentation of the estimates, etc., but do you think it's reasonable for us to ask as parliamentarians how we can deliver the mandate of an organization most effectively, especially when we're looking at the allocation of resources that are provided by Canadian taxpayers?