Thank you.
First I'll put on the record--with no disrespect to the three people sitting before us as witnesses, and I don't envy their position--that when we had the earlier meeting with the minister, I asked for the minister to be able to talk to us about legal aid and drug courts. Quite frankly, I don't believe it's within your purview to be able to answer the policy questions. So while it's nice to have you here and we welcome your information, it's not going to be particularly useful. I haven't seen before where a minister doesn't want to defend his own estimates. Certainly when the people sitting in government now were in opposition, they wouldn't have stood for this.
So I will ask some of the questions and see if you can answer them.