Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Good afternoon, Mr. Minister. We didn't have you here the last time we discussed the budget, so it's good to have you here now. I have just two quick questions here, if you can help us out.
We had your Finance officials before the committee on Tuesday. They were supposed to provide us with some estimates. I understand that you're looking forward to our pre-budget consultations, so I'm wondering if you could at least instruct your officials to release some of the estimates that they have on some of our requests, or to confirm or help us out on some of the items that we requested from them. I would really appreciate it. They had indicated that they would be releasing some of that information based on what your instructions were, so it would help if you could help us with that.