I wish we did represent the government; but absolutely, I do thank you, Mr. Gomery.
I would start by saying that your recommendations were met at the time with universal support, all parties saying that they needed to be acted upon immediately. In fact, before your recommendations came forward in the last election campaign, all parties campaigned that they would immediately implement your recommendations, and that they thought they were critical in bringing forward the types of changes we needed to see.
Yet here we are, two years after your recommendations were tabled, with you before our committee essentially telling us that the recommendations have been ignored, that all the rhetoric we heard during the campaigns has been replaced with a complete absence of action.
As my first question, have you ever had occasion to have a conversation with the Prime Minister about your recommendations and how they might be implemented?