Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, and I would like to thank all the witnesses for being here this morning.
Mr. Barney, if I could begin with you, please, I thought your comments on citizen engagement were very interesting. As you probably know, our committee has been travelling. We were out west last week and met with some of the brightest minds in the country, if not in the world, on some of these research projects. Obviously we're bringing expert stakeholders to our committee, and I'm just wondering what contribution a regular citizen can make to this very specialized field. Does it help to establish priorities, and are other countries doing something similar? If so, is it successful?