Thank you, Mr. May, for being here. Congratulations for bringing forward a private member's bill that doesn't designate a particular day for some heritage something or other and actually is quite progressive, in my view. In fact, it aligns with a lot of things that our Conservative government has done over the past few years that the current government has kind of decided to roll back. Good for you for bringing forward a tax credit, which is something that our party has always favoured.
I can't help but wait with enthusiasm to see what direction the PMO has given the majority members on this committee on how to vote on your bill, because I do recall in the House that you didn't get a lot of support from your front bench. I just want you to know, before we get to our vote, that Conservative members on this side of the table are going to be supporting your bill because it aligns quite nicely with many of the things we brought forward in the past number of years, which is what we should be doing: encouraging people to do the right things with tax credits rather than tax handouts.
When you ran your numbers, it sounded to me as if you were assuming that almost the maximum number of people would take this course all at the same time or all in the same year. Is it fair to say that the numbers you're putting out there are not an annual amount but are probably for literally the lifetime of this bill? I'd be curious to know, because it's one thing to say that if everyone took this training, it could cost in the range of $14 million. Obviously not everyone is going to take the training in year 2017, so the actual cost to the federal treasury on an annual basis, I suspect, would be considerably less than what you mention. Is that fair?