Thank you.
I just want to pick up on a comment that you made, Mr. Speer. I know that Mr. Page and maybe some others at the table have had some experience on the other side of this conversation from government. As we go through our hearings, does government listen? It's a fair question to ask, or have most of the big decisions with the budget already been made?
Your experience was that these rounds of consultations are important, that the ideas that you and other witnesses bring forward and the committee recommends are important to the drafters of the next budget.