Thank you very much, Mr. MacDonald, for your presentation.
Just before we go to questions and comments, I have a couple of items for the committee members. First of all, we're here by teleconference, but you do have photos of the witnesses in front of you. It helps. You can see who you're talking to.
Secondly, there will be a bit of a conflict on Thursday afternoon in that the pipeline safety bill will be before the House. We have bells at 5:15, so at five o'clock I'd like to have a very short in camera meeting just to discuss that and see if the committee wants to do anything to deal with that.
I'll leave that until then and get right to questions and comments now. We'll start with the government side, with Ms. Perkins, for up to seven minutes.
To the witnesses, the person you'll be listening to for the next seven minutes is Ms. Perkins. When there's a change of people to make comments or to ask you questions, I'll let you know. I'll let you know how long they'll be asking the questions for, but I think you'll figure that out. Of course, the questioner will direct the question to one of you, two of you, or to all three groups.
Go ahead, please, Ms. Perkins.