Okay. Are we all done?
All right. All those in favour of the motion? Opposed?
(Motion agreed to [See Minutes of Proceedings])
Carried. Thank you.
I have to apologize.
First of all, Mr. Larose, I am very sorry to hear about the passing of your father. I know that it's a very difficult time and I hope that you and your family will find peace soon.
Welcome to our witnesses, Patricia Valladao, chief, media relations, and Peter Larose, assistant deputy minister, public affairs and stakeholder relations, from the Department of Human Resources and Skills Development Canada.
We have half an hour left. We had hoped to have one hour, but we hit a road bump or two, so I'm going to simply ask you to... It's important for you to make your statements, and then we'll see where we are. If the committee really has a lot of questions, we have two possibilities. One is that the committee could concur to extend the meeting for the 15 minutes that we lost by preliminaries, or we could request that you come back at a future date to finish off your appearance, if that's all right. Okay.
If you have statements to make, please proceed.