Thank you, Chair.
I welcome both of you to our committee.
Unlike some of our honourable members opposite, I am positively encouraged by what's happening in the public service and certainly by the environment that has been created. Your Blueprint 2020 initiative seems to be a bottom-up initiative that is creating positive results. You're looking at technology, innovative practices, and people management, which are all very positive indeed.
Mr. Wouters, you mentioned that time flies and that you've almost completed your fifth year. I wonder if you could take the opportunity to outline some of the positive changes that have happened throughout your tenure as clerk, as well as some of the improvements that have been made in the public service to enhance the public service for Canadians over the last number of years.