Thank you very much, Mr. Martin.
Monsieur Bidal and Monsieur Bilodeau, have you any opening comments?
Okay, then. That concludes the opening remarks, colleagues. We're now going to go to the first round of questioning.
Before we do so, before calling upon Mr. Wrzesnewskyj, I want to ask members to keep their questions short and to the point. We don't need long, three-minute preambles.
I would ask the witnesses to be short and crisp with your answers. This committee has zero tolerance for long, rambling answers that have nothing to do with the question being asked.
Finally, I would ask members to be aware that this committee deals with the financial issues, with the propriety, the regularity, the economy of the issues at hand and not with the policy: whether or not this country ought or ought not to have gun control. That is a policy issue to be decided by the government of the day, and this committee has no opinion, of course, on that particular issue. I would ask members to direct their questions accordingly.
Having said that, before we go to Mr. Wrzesnewskyj, I want to point out that the auditor general of the province of Quebec is in the room. Perhaps the auditor would stand up and say hello.