Thank you, Mr. Minister.
I would also like to thank you for the provision of additional material that has been provided to the committee. I'm going to ask the clerk to distribute that. This would be the material in response to requests by the committee. In Assistant Deputy Minister Howard Brown's recent appearance before the committee, he committed to a number of the members for specific detailed information. You have provided that today, Minister, so it is being distributed to committee members now. Thank you for that.
With that, we'll proceed with questions.
Just before we do, we are now going to revert to a format more formal than what has been occurring in the last few weeks. We have been having informal witnesses to educate the committee on the oil sands. However, we passed a motion earlier in the session to stick to strict time limits for the questions, so that everybody gets an opportunity to ask a question. We haven't had that happen in the last few weeks because we have allowed the questions to go too long.
I'm going to have to be pretty strict about limiting questions to five minutes each. That way, I think everybody will be able to get a chance to ask a question, should they so desire.
With that, I'd like Mr. Cullen to begin.