Thank you, Chair.
Thank you for coming today.
I'm a bit dismayed that opposition members have taken us back to this old debate of old Europe and new Europe, when there are so many different governments in Europe. You have nations like the United Kingdom, which is governed by conservatives, or a coalition currently, and other nations that are governed by labour, so this idea of there being one Europe, I think, is preposterous and just downright silly.
I suppose I could say that if there's a path between Greece, Italy, and Spain on one hand, versus other nations such as Germany, the U.K., the Czech Republic, Poland, and most of Eastern Europe on the other, we'd probably be more in line with the nations that are trying to maintain a strong balance sheet, as opposed to falling into the debt abyss that's currently consuming much of Europe.