Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I appreciate the witnesses being here.
I must say right at the beginning that the Liberal Party would have preferred to have seen this as a separate piece of legislation; that the impact this is having is quite significant; and that it is indeed inappropriate to be sneaking it in through a budget implementation bill.
Having said that, there are a couple of questions in regard to the cost. What does the government anticipate the cost of implementing this program to be?