Thank you, Pat, and thank you to all our witnesses.
The process, so that our witnesses understand now, is that we allow a certain period of time for each of the parties to ask questions. We start off with the Liberal Party for 10 minutes, the Bloc for seven, the NDP for five, and the Conservatives for 10, and then if we need a second round, we allow five minutes each. Basically we try to keep to the time as much as we can. We have 10 minutes now, and I believe Mr. Simms is going to begin the questions.
Mr. Simms.