That's great. We appreciate that. I think everything is working well.
We certainly welcome you, Mr. Bass, and want to thank you very much for assisting this committee. As the clerk has pointed out to you, we are doing an ongoing study, a fairly extensive study, on open government and the merits of the Government of Canada adopting an open government strategy similar to what the Obama administration has adopted and partially implemented in the United States.
Having said that, I'm going to turn the floor over to you for your opening comments, and then once your comments are concluded, we'll entertain questions from members of the committee.