Thank you, Chair, and thank you all for your presentations.
I want to direct my first couple of questions to the folks from the co-op sector, both groups. You represent workers' co-ops, insurance co-ops, agricultural co-ops. You represent, if you will, the heartland of the country; people who see it as advantageous to organize themselves in a co-op fashion and embrace this, really, right across the country. And yet in the number three item in your summary recommendations you say, "Reconsider the cuts to the Social Economy Initiative announced by Ministers Flaherty and Baird...and implement the Social Economy Initiative in all parts of Canada."
For a government that purports to be interested in the regions, particularly the rural regions, this seems to be a perverse way of embracing them. Can you expand the comment you made under number three? I think both of you made it in a different sort of way.