Vous comprendrez, honorables sénateurs, que je tire une satisfaction considérable de ce renouvellement de mandat, car la nomination initiale a fait l'objet d'un débat assez houleux, mais tout cela est du passé, et je donne au Sénat l'assurance que j'appuie cette motion de tout coeur.
You will understand, honourable senators, if I also take some considerable satisfaction in his reappointment because of the somewhat turbulent debate that accompanied his appointment in the first place, but that is all water under the bridge and I assure the Senate of our wholehearted support for this motion.