Thank you, Mr. Chair. You are correct that I'll be sharing my time with Mr. McGuinty.
Minister, thank you for coming here.
By the way, the more you keep highlighting the urgency of the situation and the crisis that has arisen from that situation, the more you reveal your failure in doing your job, because your job should have been to prevent it from reaching that level. Your job should have been to manage this crisis before it got to a crisis level. Your job should not have been done by Parliament, but you are taking pride in the fact that Parliament had to step in and do your job for you.
In your initial statement you say, “After I was made aware of the situation on December 5, we started taking immediate action.” Then you tell us that you had a conference call with suppliers on December 10, five days later. Is that your definition of immediate?