Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I thank all of you for coming here today. Welcome, and thank you for being so frank with us, because it's very helpful. I suspect that for some of you, when you've said it so many times, you get kind of tired of it by now.
There are a lot of things we've heard and some things that are consistent as we go across the country, such as: affordable housing; a national early education and child care program; reform of EI; strengthening the national disability act, which I think we've discussed in this committee and about which we've heard many times before; and a number of other things.
Then, once in a while, some interesting new things and perspectives that come up. That's what I want to get into a little bit now so I'm not being repetitive, for our own sake.
Mr. Hughes, I wanted to ask you something. The last time I was on one of these panels was in 1994. It was the social security review.
Some of you may remember that great old time.