Mr. Jones, I want to thank you for joining us today, and I am pleased that you were able to come.
I am extremely impressed by your vast experience, particularly in service to the Government of Saskatchewan and the Government of Canada. This kind of experience at the senior level of the federal public service makes me feel that we have knowledgeable and experienced people running our federal public service. I am glad to have you with us today.
I also want to touch on the Saskatchewan experience that Mr. Norlock questioned, because I think we are all aware that the financial circumstances in Saskatchewan were, particularly with respect to credit rating and debt, fairly dire. After the early nineties, there was some change of government and a lot of work done to restore financial stability.
What I am impressed with is that you were there before that as assistant deputy minister, and you stayed there through the changeover in government and were there as part of the recovery until 1999, in fact rising to deputy minister of finance. They couldn't have blamed it on you, I guess. Am I right about that?