Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Basically, I've heard from stakeholders who are extremely concerned with the sense of urgency on this. They have said to us that nobody is listening. We did have the minister here the other day. I was actually getting quite upset, because it seemed that he was oblivious to the problems that were in the program.
As a committee we called people in, in June, because of the sense of urgency that we were hearing from the community. They have been in touch with us regularly over the last four months. This committee is doing a study on this. It seemed that the minister had no sense of urgency, that he really wasn't briefed to a point where he knew what we were hearing in committee.
One thing that I found quite promising, Mr. Halley, is that you mentioned that you have taken note of the testimony since Tuesday. Did the minister give you any direction as a department to monitor this committee and kind of keep up to date with what we were hearing on the ground?