Thank you for being here, Minister. I'd like to say that when I was brought up, I was brought up with manners. I will ask you questions and I expect you to answer the questions, and I will give you the appropriate time without interrupting, unlike some people on this committee who have done so today.
In my background, I have never been a minister of a government, but I have led organizations and I was a school principal with a fairly large staff. When you lead an organization, many people from many components of your organization will come and ask for a lot of things. The hardest decisions one has to make—and I'm going to ask you if you agree with this—are the ones on budgets. There are a lot of good ideas that are brought to you, and you have the last say. Is that appropriate, as a minister of a federal department?