Thank you all very much. I do appreciate your keeping within the time.
We'll go to questions, but I just want to remind the committee that we haven't set the agenda of this committee yet. In the meeting we had when we elected the chair and vice-chairs, we did have some discussion on that. The researchers took that information and put together some initial thoughts. No doubt from today's meeting you'll also be considering what you want on the agenda, and I encourage you to get that information to the members of the subcommittee on the agenda so that when we have our first meeting next Tuesday, we'll be as well informed as possible.
No doubt there will be other ideas coming from the minister's appearance before this committee on Monday. From these three meetings and from your own thoughts from before we will at least make our first attempt at setting a long-term agenda for the committee.
So with that in mind I'll go directly to questions, first from the Liberal Party, the official opposition, for seven minutes.