Excellent. Thank you again for your abbreviated statement and for joining us from across the border today.
Committee members, I am looking at the clock. We are expecting another bell in about seven minutes. Of course, once the bells start, we can't continue without unanimous consent. I'm wondering if there is agreement from the committee. We'll hear from Mr. Klaassen next. If we have agreement, we could then hear from the Federation of Canadian Municipalities. If there's also agreement, we could do one really abbreviated round of questions of three minutes each. That would take us about 15 minutes into the bells. I expect by the time the bells happen, we get over there and we vote, that we probably won't be coming back. I wonder, once we start this next round of questions, if there is agreement from the committee to just roll right into the last one, and if there is interest, to ask some very quick questions.
Yes, from the Conservatives.
Let's do that.
Mr. Klaassen, I'll give you your seven minutes. Then we'll roll right into the Federation of Canadian Municipalities and we'll follow with some very quick questions.