Thank you, and thank you for coming before the committee.
Most of us realize that travelling is probably the least glamorous part of any of our jobs--spending time in airports and on airplanes.
I'd like to put some of this in context, so that it's on the record. You talked about spending $2 million on international travel, and I believe Ms. Ridgeway's travel was $400,000 over three years. I'd like to put it in perspective, so that we have a good idea of what exactly we're talking about here, and to include how many days you were actually on the road and away from your office here in Ottawa.
I'm wondering also if any other staff travelled with you. Did you travel alone on these trips? What was the number of actual trips that were taken? Did the minister travel with you on any of these events, and was any of your travel at the request of the minister, that you travel to a certain location on his or her behalf? I would assume you have some details on each one of these trips, and I don't know if you want to give that to the committee for us to look at. I know you don't want to talk about each trip and the details, but perhaps there's something you can provide the committee with on details of the trip.
I don't know if you caught all that, but do you want to give it a try to get it on the record?