I'd like to call this meeting back to order.
This is our last one-hour segment, colleagues, and we're very pleased to have with us the Minister of Finance, the Honourable Jim Flaherty.
Welcome, Minister Flaherty.
Before we go to the first round, I'm going to urge the members again. We are dealing with very specific contracts, and I'd ask the members to keep your questions short, brief, succinct, and I would ask Mr. Flaherty, of course, to keep his answers short and to the point.
Having said that, we're going to go to the first round of seven minutes to.... Excuse me. I forgot.
Do you have an opening statement, Mr. Flaherty?