Thank you, Chair.
Minister, thank you so much for being here today. I know your schedule is jam-packed. We really appreciate your time here, and thank you for working so hard on behalf of Canada.
I want to pursue a line of questioning on the real estate investment trust in part 5 of the technical tax amendments. But just before I do that, I want to reiterate what Mr. Van Kesteren said and clarify a couple of points. One is that, as Mr. Van Kesteren has said, the opposition keeps putting forward speakers—and through you, Chair, I say to Mr. McCallum, you should be listening to this carefully—to delay a bill that is clearly a no-brainer.
Also, in 2008, as Mr. Van Kesteren said, under the Liberal-dominated Senate, a bill was put forward and was delayed by your party—through you, Chair—to delay the bill. Certainly there's your share of responsibility.
On the real estate investment trust, Mr. Minister, there was a lot of consultation that took place to propose those amendments. Could you talk about the consultative process a bit and how extensive that really was?