Thank you, and thank you to the witnesses for being here today.
Before I launch into this light questioning, I just want to say that I can appreciate the burdens over at NRCan and maybe other government departments when the whole country and the whole world decides it wants to go green, and says, “Over to you, Jack; make us go green.” That's a huge shift societally, and I appreciate those things.
I also appreciate your evidence today that in the context of these particular agreements, no taxpayer money went east, that the contracts were executed and there was reasonable value for money in terms of the objectives.
Could you confirm that in the context of this particular sequence of contracts that the Auditor General has pointed out, in fact the goals of those contracts were accomplished?