Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'm going to be directing my questions to Mr. Wlodyka.
Sir, I'm going to quote you first. You made a statement on CKNW-AM Vancouver radio. I'm going to read a quote because it's going to be relevant to my line of questioning.
It says:
I frankly don’t find anything wrong with that in the sense that the Minister’s accountable to the public. If he makes a bad job of choosing which countries there’s always the ballot box to deal with it as opposed to sort of faceless experts deciding these kinds of questions who are possibly not really accountable to anyone. So I don’t really have a problem with the Minister. There is political accountability in the end.
Is that a fair statement?