Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Governor Macklem and Senior Deputy Governor Wilkins, for being here today.
Governor, first of all, you talked about the need for citizens to be able to trust their institutions and those who run their institutions. We have some members of the opposition who have perpetuated a theory that has developed since the onset of the pandemic that suggests there is a plot under way to impose some sort of socialist world order onto the world in the interests of the elite—the elite being in the financial sector, the politicos of the world—who want to remake the world in some sort of socialist image, if I can put it that way.
That's what I understand about this conspiracy theory called the “great reset”. I can't believe I'm asking this question at a parliamentary committee, but trust is the essential glue of democracy. Is there any merit to this idea?