Thank you.
Madam Chair, I really don't have time for a question, so perhaps I'll just make a comment.
Mr. Shugart, I want to congratulate you on 40 years of public service. That is absolutely exceptional.
In any capacity that I can, I want to offer an apology for the fact that you felt the need to inform this committee at the beginning that anything you said would obviously be the truth. I think that any honourable member would assume that of their top civil servant. I want it to be known that at least from the position that I'm sitting in.... The other people around this table will come and go, but it's the folks who run the operation, the folks who maintain the integrity of the system, such as you, who are the ones who truly keep our democratic system in place for generations to come, so thank you.