Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the past couple of years I have asked the Minister on a number of occasions about lobbying the federal government with regard to the 10 percent excise tax on diamonds. It's been reported in the National Press that in the lead-up to the federal budget, there was some discussion at the federal government level about eliminating that tax. I would like to know if the Minister could advise us what he did in order to try to keep that on the table. It didn't make it into the final budget, by the way. So the tax is still there, although there might have been some discussion about eliminating it. Could the Minister tell us what role he played in trying to encourage the federal government to eliminate that tax as the budget was being developed? What role did his department play?