Thank you, Mr. Chair. Actually, given that you've lost half an hour to the vote, I'm quite happy to dispense with the opening statement and get right to questions if that would be helpful to the committee.
I just wanted to put on the record that this is the 20th appearance by departmental officials at this committee in this calendar year. We enjoy our exchange with the committee and look forward to further exchanges in the coming year.
If it's possible with the committee clerk to simply take all the elegant prose of my opening statement and read it into the record of the committee, I'm quite happy to go straight to questions.
If you wish, I could race through it, if that's easier.