Thank you, Mr. Bevington, and thank you, Mr. Minister.
We've come to the end of the first hour, and as we indicated earlier in the scheduling, we were pleased to get the minister to come this early in the mandate, and I'm pleased that you were able to fit it into your schedule to give us an hour today.
As I indicated at the outset, the officials will remain for the final hour. Because we did go considerably overtime in the first round of questioning, I wonder if I could ask you to finish the round and take a round of questions from this side of the table before you leave.