Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. McArthur, before I get into my question, if I didn't hear that accent, I would have thought it was Jean Chrétien saying, “jobs, jobs, jobs”.
Nevertheless, just to pick up on what my colleague, Mr. Brison, said, we had the Minister of Industry here in our last meeting and he was put the same question in terms of combining the two programs. We asked for his assurance that he would take it to his cabinet colleagues, because the response back to us in this committee was that this was a revenue issue.
Given that this is one approach that would help the industry--as you've just clearly stated--have there been presentations to that ministry? If not, will you commence some kind of a proactive initiative to pressure that ministry to see how they can combine these two programs? It's one of the areas that I think would help the industry.