Madame Chairperson, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you, Madame Chairperson, for your kind introduction and my thanks, also, to your organization for giving me this opportunity to present some remarks. Given the impressive list of speakers who you have invited to give the Mary Donaldson lecture series in the past, I am most flattered, and a little intimidated, to be asked to present this year's lecture. The topic which I have selected for this lecture is public economic investment in Saskatchewan and why the people of this province have been such strong supporters of government owned and operated economic enterprises.