Seeing that we have a quorum, committee members, I would like to reconvene the meeting and also advise you, since I was in similar situations as parliamentary secretary to the government House leader for nine years, that I suspect we'll be hearing bells again in about eight to ten minutes.
Mr. Whalen, you had a question.
Mr. Smith, I believe you heard the question. If you are prepared to respond, we'll try to get through as much of this as we can.