Thank you, Chair.
Thank you all very much for your attendance today.
I'll begin by commenting on Mr. Horgan's comments about how good a report it was. I agree. It was a good report. I'm surprised, collectively, that we chose to do this. We have a short period of time. There are lots of problems out there. When something goes well, the government has all the techniques and departments and vehicles to let the world know how wonderful the AG's report was. Our job is to deal with things that are problematic, so I'm really surprised that, collectively, we all made that decision, but I'm not sure it was the best use of our time.
Having said that, it is a pretty good report, and most Canadians, by and large--I'm not even going to get into tax benefits or any of that. I'm going to stay on this report, and in the context of this report, it was a good report, and I think Canadians are pleased about how strong the banking system is as a system. The government takes a lot of credit for that, but the truth is we have to also give a fair bit of that credit to the previous government, which maintained it too. Fair is fair. Give everyone his due.
However, there are a couple of things we can talk about here. I don't have anything to go on about at great length. I may run out of questions before I run out of time, which is very unusual for me. That is because I don't know what to do with a good report. I'm used to reaching for my weapons, but in this case, we'll deal with what we have.
I have one simple question first. Madame Bourque, I was just curious, on page 3 you mentioned that your colleague Michael Horgan will be speaking to this particular recommendation, and then later on you say, “The written remarks of my colleague Gary Walker address follow-up on this recommendation....”
To what degree do you coordinate your presentations?