Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you for the opportunity to be here.
I want to focus on Mr. Johnson's presentation and the interaction of Bill C-48 and Bill 207. Am I to understand that Bill 207 essentially confirmed the purposes of Bill C-48, and then with the change in government, there was an attempt to, if not repeal it, at least alter the intention?
What I don't understand is, first of all, on Bill C-48, the Conservatives, who were then in opposition, voted massively against Bill C-48, and now in government, because of Bill C-48, they have been forced to fund it, and they funded it through a trust.
I don't understand how a junior level of government gets to say that the purpose of these moneys is changed because we say it's changed, regardless of whether the reasons are good or bad or whether we argue about them. I don't understand how you do that. Can you explain that to me?