Thanks very much, Madam Chair.
Thanks very much to our three witnesses for being with us this morning. We appreciate the fact that you're here and understand that some of your testimony is not easy for you to be doing here in front of everyone this morning.
I want to take the discussion on a little bit different angle, if I can. It's my understanding, and I stand to be corrected on this, that you were each appointed through the Governor in Council process because of the specific expertise you would be bringing to the board.
You're no longer there, so first of all, then, how is your specific discipline being represented? How is the mandate of the board being carried out if in fact part of the overall concept of who is supposed to be represented at the board level is no longer there?
I guess first of all I need to know whether my assumption is correct that you were there because of your specific abilities and your contribution in a specific field.