Colleagues, I will call the meeting back to order.
Before we begin with the testimony from our witnesses, I would like to reserve the last 15 minutes of our allotted time to deal with some committee business. That means we have approximately 40 minutes left for our witnesses to provide testimony.
We have heard the opening statement from the minister and had a number of questions to the minister.
Mr. Purves, do you have any kind of prepared statement?