Great.
The other thing I wanted to alert you to is that I intend, in this meeting, to be firmer with the times than I was the last time around. You may not be aware of this, but I kept watch with my trusty timer the last time, and on four occasions we went over the allotted five minutes by up to two and half minutes. There were fulsome answers to intelligent questions, so I allowed this to occur. But it was with one witness rather than the three we have today, all of whom, in many cases, will have to answer these questions. So I will have to be tougher with the timing.
What I plan to do is this. If you are asking a very long question, then at somewhere between a minute and 90 seconds, I'll remind you that you're taking quite a bit of time. That won't prevent you from using up all of your time in a question, but will just alert you in case you've forgotten. Second, if you get through a question and an answer and you're going for a second question, I'll let you know how much time is left, and then I'll be pretty strict in enforcing or cutting off the time. I know this will not really be fair to our witnesses, and I regret the fact that it is the only way of ensuring that we're going to have any time at all for everybody to get a round.
What I really want to do is to apologize in advance to our witness for the fact that you are very distinguished jurists and scholars and deserve more time, but this is the only time we can make available for you. That's why I'm doing this.
That being said, I'm told that our two presenters from the CBA have a single presentation. Could I ask Mr. Amyot to proceed.