First of all, good afternoon, and thank you for coming here and helping us understand in a practical way how you made this change to accrual accounting and accrual budgeting in your respective provinces. There's nothing like firsthand experience to help guide us in making our decision.
My first question is perhaps a clarification. I know you have all spoken about the importance of training, investment in training, and front-end planning. In some ministries there were concerns about what this would mean. None of us likes to think that the system with which we're comfortable, with all its flaws, is necessarily going to change. That can be a good change or a bad change, and you sometimes don't know ahead of time.
But am I understanding you correctly about not trying to bring in all senior staff in advance because you may not be able to allay their fears? Are you saying that if you believe it's the right decision, make the decision and have the right people leading the change to help people understand what it's going to mean for them afterwards?
Our decision federally has also been influenced by concern at some senior staff levels about what this will mean. You want to take into account people's concerns and views, but am I right in assuming that in your respective provinces you made that decision, even though there might have been some outstanding concerns? You worked it through and brought people on side who weren't already on side, through the implementation?