Thank you.
As I mentioned, I first met with the Office of the Ethics Commissioner in April of this year. My first question had to do with leaves of absence that had been taken by other public officer holders and whether there's a system. I followed that up with two steps. One was to familiarize myself with the act to understand exactly how it might apply in my circumstances. The second was to make full disclosure of my own circumstances to the Office of the Ethics Commissioner.
During the summer I was advised by the Ethics Commissioner that an ethical wall or conflict screen should be established, after which I asked Mr. Roy and Mr. Wild to prepare that for me. That was reviewed and approved by the Ethics Commissioner on Friday of last week.
The next steps for me are to undertake the remaining statutory steps, which are to make full disclosure of my holdings in the confidential report required by the statute and to get the actual declarations from the Ethics Commissioner put on the public record as they relate to me.