Welcome, Mr. Gomery. Thank you so kindly for being here today.
Obviously your report went a long way in dealing with the previous Liberal...the criminality, the lack of accountability, the lack of integrity. But most importantly, I think Canadians today have accepted a broad number of your recommendations, either through parliamentary or real life's experience. As such, I think Canada is a better place for it.
I think there needs to be work done yet. I think we all recognize that. There's one thing I'd like you to reflect on, when you're sitting down at Havelock at some particular time, though. That is the number of esteemed citizens, whether it was Bob Rae, John Manley, Professor Tom Courchesne, Herschel Ezrin, Arthur Kroeger—I could go through a list of some 40 people—who expressed some reservations regarding your perception of governance. I really do believe this is an area we could expand upon, and both the public accounts committee and the government operations committee could take a serious interest in trying to improve how this whole House of Parliament works.
So certainly by no means consider this case closed. It's an ongoing process. Government, Parliament is just that, and your contribution has certainly been welcomed and appreciated.