Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Minister, welcome to our committee. I want to quickly acknowledge that you are one of the very first ministers who voluntarily offered a date of last week to join us, but we had some conflict around the availability of the witnesses on that day. I want to quickly acknowledge that and thank you.
Minister, when you had that conversation with the Prime Minister—you said you were going to get back to us on the date—and Minister Fortier, what was the ask? What was the scope of the work that Minister Fortier's department was going to do or the minister was going to do, and what was the scope of work that your department was going to do?