Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses.
I, too, would like to congratulate you on your hard work, particularly in eliminating the backlog. Congratulations on that.
Just as a reminder, I noticed that you're doing consults in three cities, in Toronto, Montreal and Calgary. Of course, we'd always welcome you in the great Kenora riding, and it would be good, unlike previous governments, to pay some attention to some of the rural and remote areas that can no doubt make a good pitch on this issue.
I want to talk about estimates. Your report on priorities and planning--hereinafter RPP--indicates proposed increases in planned spending this year related to the implementation of the Electronic Commerce Protection Act. Your office was recently before us on the supplementary estimates (C) for 2009-10 with, I believe, a $100,000 item that was also linked to this implementation.
My questions are as follows. I'll just put them out there.
The Electronic Commerce Protection Act is Bill C-27 from the second session of the 40th Parliament. As of the date of publication of your RPP, it has not been reintroduced into the House during the third session, so how are you calculating implementation costs over a three-year period for a bill that has not yet been introduced?
Second, in your testimony to the committee on the supplementary estimates (C) for 2009-10, when you were here in March, you stated that the $100,000 allocated for this item has already been spent. Is this your projected future spending for the same kinds of activities on which that $100,000 was spent or for something else?
Finally, do you plan to include requests for these extra amounts in the upcoming supplementary estimates later in this fiscal year?
I'd be happy to repeat any of those questions if you didn't get them.