Colleagues, I'd like to call the meeting to order pursuant to the order of reference of today, which is Bill C-18, an act to amend certain acts relating to agriculture and agri-food.
With that, colleagues, I also welcome our witnesses for our panel.
Mr. Chidi Oguamanam is a professor in the Faculty of Law and is here in person.
We also have a video conference. I welcome each of you. From the Canadian Association of Agri-Retailers, we have Delaney Ross Burtnack. From the Agricultural Credit Corporation, we have Jaye Atkins, and from the Compost Council of Canada, we have Susan Antler.
I'm going to leave the professor until last just in case we have a video interruption, so that gives us a little time should something go wrong with our video.
I will start with the Canadian Association of Agri-Retailers and Delaney Ross Burtnack, who is the president and chief executive officer.