Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Mr. Wiseman.
You've given us some interesting details to contemplate, but you did indeed proactively answer a number of questions that may have been lingering in some people's minds.
Let's just do a couple of housekeeping items for the purpose of eliminating them as issues. In addition to serving various fisheries ministers who might have been members of a Liberal government, you also, I understand, served fisheries ministers Tom Siddon, Valcourt, Crosbie, and others. Did you receive promotions in your position during that time in office? Would you be able to answer?
The bottom line is whether you had the respect and the ear of various ministers, both Conservative and Liberal, over the tenure of your career.