Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for coming today.
I'm just going over the estimates here for science for 2008-09, and it shows a decrease from 2005-06 of almost $23 million. I'm just wondering, with all the things that science is being asked to do--and you had indicated the pressures that science is under and all that you're being asked to do--how the department can justify a decrease in science. I know members of this committee and others who are out there in the world are asking for more human and financial resources to science.