Thank you, Chair. I would never want to hold up my colleague here, so I appreciate that.
As I was saying, I take the availability of all of these documents in both official languages very seriously. I wish we could also move on the modernization of the Official Languages Act as fast as we are moving here today, but unfortunately this has not been the case to this point. I will look forward to that at a later time.
I want to thank the committee for listening to my thoughts about the minister. Again, I have very warm and positive sentiments regarding him, not only as an individual based upon my history with him and his work with the natural resources sector but also with his willingness to be here today. I know, in that same spirit of collaboration and flexibility, he will make himself available at a later time when we have had the opportunity to prepare for that.
Perhaps, as I'm done my comments, I will pass to my colleague, the member of Parliament for Edmonton Riverbend.