Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, and thank you all very much for being here.
I hope you don't take what I'm about to say on a personal level. It's more on a professional level. First, I'm extremely pleased with the documentation we have before us. The motion for this meeting was passed on a Monday afternoon, and the clerk of the committee advised me that your offices were contacted yesterday for a meeting today. Yet we have two reports here. I assume they've been translated, and they would have been proofread before they got here. In my 15 years, I have never seen, in any committee I've ever been on, the speed at which people were able to appear before a committee within 24 hours with the information we have. It's really quite amazing. I'm thanking you for that.
Prior to Monday, were any of you or any of your office staff or anybody related to this meeting today contacted with an indication that there would be a meeting on this subject on Wednesday in the House of Commons?