Mr. McGuinty, if I could interject before Mr. Fadden responds--and I'm not going to take this time from your questions, David--it's my intention and my hope that we would have the minister appear here probably as early as next week, and I must admit I was a little taken aback by the drift of your question at the moment. My sense of this meeting was that it was really going to be an information kind of a meeting for the department officials, not getting into government policy. That kind of question seems to me to be something that certainly the minister would be prepared to respond to, but I just wanted to lay that out for you. You're certainly entitled to ask any question you want and to the extent that he can, the deputy's able to respond. But in terms of policy direction, new direction, it's all pretty new for all of us here, and some of that might be more appropriate for the minister when he comes, David. I just want to say that.
I don't want to put you on the spot here, witnesses. When I invited you I may have misled you to suggest that you were just going to provide general information on the department and background for members and not get into political or partisan policy matters at this point quite yet.
Sorry, David, I've interrupted you and I'm not taking that off your time, but I just wanted to leave that out.