Well, I would like to say, on behalf of the committee, that is an unacceptable contempt for the parliamentary procedure of allowing us to hold government to account. This has totally disrupted the usual way that estimates are conducted where the minister comes first, and if he or she needs to go away somewhere, the officials stay behind. The fact that your appearance is coming at your convenience, literally after Parliament has already accepted the estimates, is equally disappointing.
I would like to start with where we have been on assisted human reproduction. The estimates have $10 million there. What do you think the people of Canada are getting for that $10 million?
Should the agency be disbanded? Are you going to do something about getting the regulations? How can you have an agency to enforce regulations that don't exist? How can you defend $10 million to the people of Canada when your department has not yet been able to get the regulations there that this agency is supposed to be enforcing?