Great, thanks very much, Mr. Chair.
Welcome, and thank you very much for your excellent testimony. We do appreciate your being here. I'd also like to congratulate you for the great work you have done.
I don't think I really need to remind anyone around the table that thousands of jobs, of course, have been lost because of this dispute. Communities and small businesses have been devastated because of this dispute, and the industry have told us that they must have stability in order to survive. Of course, that has been the focus of this Conservative government, to find that stability, not only for the communities and small families and small businesses, but also for industry as whole and Canada as a whole.
Just to comment a little bit on some of my colleague Peter Julian's comments with the previous witness, he clearly does not like this deal, I think it's safe to say. He might even hate it—except he really wants to see a longer termination clause for something he doesn't want to be in. He wants a longer termination clause; he doesn't want to get out—