Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
As you know, I haven't been here for the whole meeting. I'm replacing someone else on our side. So I hope the questions I will ask have not already been covered, but I'm sure the witnesses or you will help me in that regard if that's the case.
Let me begin by asking you about the estimates and the fact they have increased this year by 6% over last year, and they've gone up 30% from the year before that. What's occurred over the past two years to cause this large increase in the department's spending? And is there a particular area of the department the money is going to?