Thank you, Minister, for being here.
Very quickly, I'll say that I was privileged to hear you at the Economic Club about a year ago. You shared with the audience just what happened in 2009 and just how precarious a position the world was in.
We get so much criticism—and you've had criticism—about increasing the deficit and spending that money, but you had a great explanation. I wonder if you could share with us again why that was so critical and what actually transpired, and, as a result of it, how that got us out of a really bad situation.