Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I guess this even more compounds the difficulty that we face: a $30 million shortfall in anticipated revenues. Today, we hear that this panel, on which so much of our immediate and long-term future has been hinged, is now going to be another three or four months late in reporting. The Minister is absolutely correct, as he said yesterday in his statement, our difficult outcome is difficult to predict.
Mr. Chairman, if we aren't going to hear from this panel until next spring, that is going to be after our budget planning process. So we will go into another year of uncertainty, where we are probably looking at a federal election next spring, which means the federal government will not be in a position to take this panel and this information in until...It seems that we are probably looking at a year from now until we potentially get any feedback on the work of this expert panel. What are we going to do in the meantime with such a precarious fiscal situation already? The panel that was going to have the answers, or at least have a map for us, we are not going to hear from for another year. Is there anything the Minister can bring to the table that says, "Here is how we can operate"? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.