Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Welcome, everybody, to the committee. I certainly look forward to serving again on this committee, which I enjoyed very much in the past.
I'll go directly to my questions. Can you remember this from some time ago under Minister Peterson, when we did the review on emerging markets? We talked about how we needed to be more competitive out there in order for Canada to be more competitive and to sell its goods, services, and technology. We needed not only to have the right kinds of people in terms of trade commissioners, which we referred to in here, but also to give them the tools and the means and the ways and the time. One of the recommendations at that time concerned their tenure, their period of service in a said country. It was recommended to go beyond the normal. I don't know if that has been implemented, or if there are any efforts leading toward that, or if moneys have been put toward that, because as the saying goes, you have to spend a dollar to make a dollar--and properly equipping these offices or these people requires financial support. Can you just briefly touch upon that for us?