There is no need at all to apologize, Madam Chair. Quite the contrary. This will give me a chance to broach other subjects.
Good day, Ms. saint pierre. Welcome to you and your colleagues. I appreciate your taking the time to come here. I know that you have a busy schedule as well.
I'd like to make a brief comment along the same lines as Ms. Marleau's. On listening to you, Ms. saint pierre, I have the feeling that we should be congratulating you and praising you for making your Small and Medium Enterprise offices genuine success stories. However, I will reserve my congratulations until later because other industry stakeholders seem to be singing a somewhat different tune. So then, I will hold off to see if you deserve to be praised or not for your efforts.
Mr. Kramp said to one of the witnesses a little while ago that he thought it was more whining than anything else on their part. I beg to--