Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I am starting in French, so I can practise speaking.
That's it. It was very brief, très bref.
Thank you for taking the time to come here today. I want to use the opportunity, me being an Alberta member of Parliament and you being a Quebec minister, to address some of the issues that have been quite prominently raised over the last week.
One of the things I've always appreciated about working with my Quebec colleagues on the Conservative side is our ability to work together to try to solve issues of common interest across the country. I've been very concerned about some of the discussion over the last few weeks, even over the last year, from the opposition members. The leader of the NDP, for example, referred to the strength of the Alberta economy as a disease. The prospective leader of the Liberal Party made the suggestion that Albertans are somehow not suitable to—