Thank you, Chair.
I want to thank the minister for being here today without hesitation to answer our questions. I think it takes a lot of courage to immediately admit that you made a mistake and to commit to ensuring that the same mistake won't happen again.
I will tell you that during the pandemic, when all of this was rolling out and these contracts were happening, I was on the other side. I was a journalist. I was mostly tasked with covering those daily news conferences. I have to say that from my perspective, the information was clear. There was a lot of information. These were really complicated programs that the government was rolling out. I want to thank you for making it easy for journalists to absorb all that information.
As a former broadcaster, I know that this sort of thing doesn't come naturally or easily to most people. I'm wondering if you can tell me what you were going through during that time when the government was rolling out these programs to help Canadians and you were faced with this task of communicating that.