Thank you very much, Mr. Friday, for those very concise but information-packed remarks. It leaves us adequate time for a number of rounds of questioning. I'm glad that you're here today, and I should have mentioned it during my opening remarks that your speaking to the reports on plans and priorities at the same time as you're speaking to the main estimates is very useful to us as a committee. That was one of the recommendations of the committee in our own study. In the the analysis of estimates, its' very useful.
We'll begin with the official opposition, with Mr. Denis Blanchette.