Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Good morning, ministers.
Good morning to you as well, ladies and gentlemen officials.
Ministers, I appreciate the fact that you have come here this morning. I nevertheless want to tell you that I am somewhat disappointed—it's not that I didn't want to see you—because the person who would have been in the best position to answer our specific questions is the Minister of Industry. The officials who have come to see us in previous weeks have told us that the Minister of Transport at the time and the current Minister of Industry, who was also Minister of Industry then, made the decision to favour one region over others to hold the G8. I'm nevertheless going to ask you these questions, knowing that you may have been briefed before coming here.
I will speak first to the Minister of Transport. When you decide to hold a summit in a specific region, such as the one you held in Huntsville, you two ministers decide. In this instance, you two ministers decided this time.
How was that location chosen? Don't you think that, since that place was located in the constituency of the Minister of Industry, the Minister of Industry was being put in a conflict of interest?