Minister and Deputy Minister, thank you for your ongoing commitment to this country.
Minister, off the top, I do think it's important that we have someone to deal with financial responsibility before the committee and answer questions on the estimates. In the second hour we have some officials. I'm sure they're very talented, but I would just ask you, right off the top, since the deputy minister is also an accounting officer, if you would ask him to please stay for the second hour.