Thank you, Minister, for your presentation.
I'd also like to officially congratulate you. After all the years we served in opposition together, I think it's a well-deserved promotion for you to become a minister. I do recall, even during the time we served in opposition, your speaking about immigration issues, particularly the example in your riding of the Sudanese refugees. I know how passionately you spoke about their meat processing qualities, especially during the BSE crisis. So I know you are well aware of some of the challenges.
In any case, I wanted to focus on a couple of questions in the time I have. One is a general one, and I think it's something you already addressed briefly in your remarks, about the Canadian agency for assessment of foreign credentials. This is an issue that I think is very topical for all of us who have studied this in depth in the last session of Parliament.
I understand in the budget there's $18 million allocated for two years for this. Can you explain how this is going to work and how it's going to coordinate with the provinces to effectively achieve something? As you know, there hasn't been much achieved in this particular area, and we'd like to actually see some results, so maybe you can talk about how that's going to work.