Thanks, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for being here and for the work you do.
I have a couple of questions around targets. I have trouble with the use of the word “target”, because usually a target is something for which you're going from zero to try to achieve, and you're actually working the other way. You're actually working with an inventory that you're trying to limit, so I would actually call it a “quota”, not a target.
When I worked in business we wanted to produce so much steel. That was our target. When I was a pastor in a church and wanted to bring in so many people and so much money, that was a target. This isn't a target. This is actually a quota.
So I'm interested in knowing, following up on Mr. Manicom's remarks, what role you play in setting the government's targets, and what role the inventories you maintain play in setting the targets that the government uses.