Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My first question is for Mr. Lee.
I have a great deal of sympathy for firefighters across this country, given the nature of their work and their dedication. However, my sympathy is smaller for the budget allowance that you are recommending that the government should give to firefighters, and I know from my research and my own experience that every association of firefighters negotiates with its respective municipality to come up with collective agreements, and many of them often provide very good benefits. Municipalities, of course, come under provincial jurisdiction. So it is not clear to me what role the federal government could play here.