Thank you very much, Madam Minister. We very much appreciate both of you agreeing to come here today and be our first witnesses. As you mentioned, we're going to be hearing from over 40 witnesses in the course of this week. We also understand the importance of getting this done quickly, and we're trying to fulfill that by meeting the extra hours that we are.
Now we're going to have our panels of questioners. There are going to be 50 minutes of questions, and in the first round you're going to get six minutes from the Conservatives, six from the Liberals, six from the NDP, and six from the Liberals.
I'm going to turn it over to Mr. Cooper, who will be the first questioner.