Thank you, Chair.
Welcome, Minister. Congratulations on your appointment. As you know, this is a very important role for my fellow citizens. Our riding is the only one outside the national capital region to house the headquarters of a federal government department. So I hope we'll see you there regularly.
Minister, it's too bad that I always have to do this, but I do. You were asked questions by Mr. Richards. He didn't like your response, so he interrupted you.
Now is your chance to say what you wanted to say before you were interrupted, in particular with respect to his allegation—