Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the heart of your Parliament.
I will continue in English. It's all right with me.
First of all, before asking you any questions, gentlemen and madam, I want to say that I'm very pleased to see how cautious our colleagues from the government are, and so prudent, when they talk about debt and limiting the risk, while this government, if nothing changes, will go to a debt of $1.5 trillion in 2050. So what is good for Canadians will not be good for the Canadian government, and we have to be very concerned with that.
Gentlemen and madam, I have a question for every one of you. Were you consulted before the call of the minister in October?