Thank you very much.
Thank you to the panellists for coming today. I only have a couple of questions.
I do appreciate the panellists from the area of water quality and the environment, in terms of the oceans. To be fair, we, including myself, did have a number of requests and ideas that we'd like to see in the budget. Obviously, it didn't all get in there. We saw hundreds and hundreds of people last year, and they all had a request. I don't think anybody, or very few, didn't want money for something.
I am very supportive of the national water strategy. It may be just a beginning. It may not meet your needs, but from my particular area it certainly does, on the Great Lakes. It is a start. I will continue to pursue those issues. Also, I was recently nominated for a marine caucus piece, and I might take some interest in what those issues are related to industry.
I do appreciate you coming.
I do have one question to begin with for the professor from Nova Scotia. We based our results, basically, on the O'Brien report, who I don't think was hired under the Conservatives but rather under the Liberals to do the math. Based on the numbers that I have, there actually is a difference, and I believe they've gone with the new formula, I'm pretty positive of that, for this year, and then there's a decision to be made, which I think was referred to earlier.
Could you explain to me where O'Brien was wrong in his formula, compared to what you have in your formula?