Thank you, Chair, and thank you, committee members.
I'm hoping that today you will experience and see what I believe is the best way legislation should be crafted and taken through the House of Commons, in this collaborative effort.
I want to thank my colleague. One of the things about this new Parliament—and I think that there should be, and it's gradually starting to be—is a collaborative way of working together. Working with the member for Niagara Falls, Mr. Nicholson, has been a great treat. He is a senior member, a former minister, who knows the way things actually work, and who makes me look good. I want to thank him.