Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, and through you, I thank the witnesses for their presentations today.
Mr. Carlton, perhaps I could start with you.
I think you described our study today as an important one. I agree with you, but it is also, I think, a bit of a curious study in that there's no explicit purpose for it. I think you have to read between the lines.
In the absence of a clear purpose statement for what we're doing here, I was wondering if you might lend us one. If you were to say, “Guys, you ought to be studying this issue in infrastructure and this is why”, what would the why be? How would you advise that we go about this study? What metrics ought we to be using here to see whether we're meeting the purpose that you give it? I'm going to presume for a moment that the purpose is have we done it right for the last 20 years, have we spent the right amount of money on the right things, have we spent money prudently, has it been too much or too little?
Does that make sense?