Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to all the witnesses today.
Before I go through my line of questioning, I have a comment to Mr. Steenstra. Our thoughts are with the people up in Fort McMurray. If there is a city that has taken it on the chin, it certainly has been Fort McMurray, with fires, the reduction in the resource sector and now the flood, so our thoughts are with you.
I want to direct my first questions to Mr. Scholz. I think he's still on the call.
We heard from the Governor of the Bank of Canada about how important the resource sector is to the Canadian economy and how important it will be to the recovery.
From your perspective and your members' perspective, how critical is it that we see some form of a package from the finance minister? I know he promised that it was days, and then weeks, away. It's been a month now. Can you offer any kind of comment as to how your members are feeling about that situation and how big the crisis is for them?