Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Premier, I appreciate your being here. I apologize for those earlier points of order. As you can appreciate, a Conservative chair brought you here without the consultation of this committee to talk about the main estimates, but now we're talking about something else completely different, which is meant for the finance committee.
Yesterday, we put forward a motion, the last motion, which the Conservative chair did not allow us to pass. He adjourned, which made it very clear what the will of the committee was, notwithstanding the misinterpretation of an earlier motion.
I want to preface that by saying to you that we appreciate your being here, but we also recognize the politics involved and the partisanship that's taking place.
Can you advise us on when you were contacted to appear before this committee?