Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to our guests for coming before us today.
Of course, I'm sure that even the Liberal member across the table knows you're more than just messengers and knows that you do important work for Canadians. We thank you for that.
Let me lead off with a question about process. Sometimes—just from time to time—things get a bit political around here and numbers may be manipulated a little. I want to clarify the difference between when dollars are committed and when dollars actually flow under the two main programs we're talking about right now.
Maybe you could use those two programs as an example, so that when people are talking about numbers, Canadians know what they're talking about. Let us start with the commitment of dollars and when it happens, rather than when the dollars actually flow.