Thank you very much.
First of all, thank you for your patience at the beginning of the meeting. Also, we certainly appreciate your taking the time today to be with us.
I have several questions. They basically centre around transparency, enforcement, and evaluation, as well as consultation.
But my first question really is around transparency, if I may...? These questions are broad. I can appreciate the need for confidentiality with regard to enterprises, so I'm going to keep these very broad and try to centre them around these three pillars.
About transparency, around the decisions on the potash--and now we have a lot of discussion around the TMX/TSE merger--there's been a call for greater predictability, greater transparency, and timeliness in Canada's investment review process. I noted in The Globe and Mail the other day that somebody was talking about the investment review act and was saying that, really, we need more predictability and transparency in this particular issue.
One of the questions I'd like to ask is, in broad terms, how do we get to a clear rules-based system that takes the political expediency out of the mix?