Thank you.
Good morning, Mr. President. First I want to thank you for being here. I read your curriculum vitae; it is quite impressive.
I would like to draw your attention to the following: you are a university president and you work in the private sector as far as I can tell, and you are a member of several boards of directors, including that of the Cardiology Institute at the University of Ottawa, the Ontario Research and Innovation Council, a centre of excellence of Ontario, and the National Research Council of Canada, which makes you a sort of expert in boards of directors.
You are also a University of Ottawa alumni—you are an Ottawa student—and you became the president, which is quite rare. At the Université Laval, in Quebec City, this does not happen often.
I myself have benefited or, at least, my children have benefited, in Alberta, from the education offered at the Collège Saint-Jean. The Collège Saint-Jean—as you know—is a Francophone institution. My children are Franco-Albertans, even though I am from Quebec. They attended this college, which is now associated with the Consortium national de formation en santé.
I know that as president you manage millions of dollars—among other things—and I know that the University of Ottawa is showing leadership within the Franco-Ontarian community. What I want to know is when you are allocated millions of dollars—and you know the Conservative Party has a tendency to focus on financial responsibility and that we still have not managed to pass our bill, which is being held up in the Senate by the Liberals—what mechanisms allow you to ensure that the money invested—some millions of dollars—is managed effectively? I gave you examples that I have, but the rest I do not know.