Thank you, Chair. I also would like to begin by wishing everybody a very happy new year, and I hope everybody had a wonderful vacation. I can see everyone is rejuvenated and ready to go for the new year.
I would just like to say that Canadians gave our government a strong mandate on May 2 to implement a jobs and growth strategy. We have been very successful in doing all of that: we are leading the G-8 in economic performance, about 600,000 new jobs have been created, and all the jobs lost during the recession have been recovered. We have received accolades from Forbes magazine; from the World Economic Forum, where our Prime Minister is right now; and from the Economist Intelligence Unit, all saying that Canada is the best place to do business. We have the strongest economy and we are a great place to invest.
That said, it's interesting to--