Thank you for the distinguished honour, and congratulations to our vice-chairs, Mr. McGuinty and Madame Bell.
Having dispensed with that, are there more routine motions we have to get rid of?
I'm just catching up here with the clerk. Normally we start the committee with routine proceedings to establish the committee and things like expenses, the services of the library, and those sorts of thing. I don't see any reason why we shouldn't proceed with routine motions and get them out of the way, unless anyone has any objection to that. I think we can deal with them today and then perhaps get into a general discussion of where the committee might like to go.
So if I could, I would like then to go to these routine motions.