Thank you, Chair.
Thank you, Ministers, for coming, and everybody that came with you.
As you know, as Liberals we only get one shot at this so if we can keep our answers half short. I don't have 20 questions, I have four.
Minister Baird, my first question deals with your failure in London to convince your Commonwealth colleagues to move this fall summit, the Commonwealth summit. So I'm guessing that you didn't do your homework on this one.
I have two questions on that one. Did you get your senior staff to connect with some of the Commonwealth ambassadors here or your diplomats to lobby some of the various capitalists in these Commonwealth countries? The second part of my question is, did you or the Prime Minister write any of these Commonwealth colleagues and ministers, or prime ministers, encouraging them to move the venue?