Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Minister, deputy minister, and assistant deputy minister, thank you very much for being here today.
I'd like to start, Minister, in relation to the estimates. Your government claims to be supporting innovation in Canada, but through these estimates you plan to actually decrease money that goes toward marketplace competition investments. Now, obviously innovation and competition go hand in hand. Why is your government taking away funding from this area, and why aren't you supporting more competition in this great country?