I would like to call the meeting back to order. This is the second hour of the meeting scheduled for today. I will not go over the formalities again; we all know why we're here.
The second witness appearing before us today is the Honourable Ralph Goodale, former Minister of Public Works and Government Services. Welcome to the committee, Mr. Goodale, and thank you for taking time from your schedule to be with us here today.
Without any further comments, I'm going to go right to our list.
First of all, I'm going to ask Mr. Goodale if he has any opening remarks, and then I'll go to our list and we'll follow the same procedure we did at the last meeting. We're going to have six individuals, eight minutes each.
Mr. Goodale, do you have any opening comments you would like to address to the committee?