Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
I'd like to offer my greetings on behalf of Michael Eastman, our executive director, who unfortunately—unfortunately in the sense that he's missing this meeting—is at an internal audit forum in Nova Scotia today, but he sends his best regards.
I have a couple of very preliminary remarks. I remember very well, when Mr. Williams was chair, he mentioned on several occasions that witnesses would prefer to go to the dentist rather than appear before public accounts.