Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Minister, for coming. It's always a pleasure to have you here.
It'll be a lot easier today. I know how enthusiastic you are, but if you can actually try to answer our questions, it would be more helpful for everyone, including the translators.
Telesat, which you know is majority-owned by U.S. investors, is a company that your Liberal government has spent over $5 billion on since 2019 to try to connect rural and remote Canadians to the Internet with low-earth orbit satellites. There's only one small problem: It doesn't have a satellite network that connects anyone to the Internet.
In 2021, six months after you became minister, you gave $1.4 billion of taxpayer money to Telesat, a large portion of which was a loan—a very big loan. How much of that loan has been paid back? Just give the number, please.