Thank you, Mr. Chair.
First of all, thank you to both ministers and your officials for coming on such short notice. I understand this is a bill that's not only important to the government but important to Canadians. I just want to acknowledge that and thank you.
I'm going to start with Minister Duclos.
Minister Duclos, at the outset there was a lot of discussion around consultation with the provinces and territories. You were very clear in responding to that. Some of my colleagues later on asked about the level of consultations that were done with the experts. You said you were in a position to share that. Sir, can you share with us who you talked to and what the scope of it was? It would probably shed some further light into that breakdown that was the topic of discussion a few minutes ago.