Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you very much for coming forward. I appreciate having the government representatives here.
This is the first set of hearings that we're having on the SPP, but this committee will be coming back to the issue, we certainly hope, because things haven't gone well for the government. They've had to separate civil society and government representatives because the rebuttals from civil society representatives have meant that it has been difficult for the government to get its point of view across. Also, we see that there are no televised hearings today because the government didn't want to get these issues out in the public mind—