Thank you, Minister Bell. The next thing is general comments, but before we go to general comments, I would like to maybe lay out a proposal of how we can make the best use of our time in Committee of the Whole and perhaps even expedite things in the process.

In Committee of the Whole, when we are considering the budget, as everyone knows, there are Minister's comments, the committee comments, general comments and then detail. Under general comments, people take that opportunity to either speak for the whole 10 minutes and make general comments, or they use it as a Q and A with the Minister. I think the intent of general comments is as the title indicates. It is to make general comments on the department's budget, similar to the opening comments that the Minister makes.

I would like to try to draw a distinction between general comments and questions. So I would ask Members to try and hold their questions for the detail. It might involve going to your book, and taking your stickies, and going page by page, and making a note to yourself of the things you want to question on those pages.

I understand that when Members make general comments, they may say something to which the Minister would like to respond. I would ask Ministers to try not to respond unless you need to clarify something that's been said, for the record. Otherwise, I would ask you to receive the general comments as general comments and save the responses to the questions when you are actually posed with questions from the Member on the detail pages.

So if I could just liken it to one thing, we make Member's statements and then we ask questions subsequent. I would like the general comments to be like a statement and then I would like the detail to be the questions. Let's try it and see how it goes. General comments. Mr. Menicoche.