Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I'd like to first welcome both of our witnesses to the committee and thank them for their testimony.
On a personal note, I want to say how impressive I think both of you are in terms of the way that you've conducted yourselves and built these bridges to Japan and Canada on personal levels. It's very impressive.
Mr. Tak, if I could, I'll begin with you. We've heard a lot about non-tariff barriers. We've had some testimony at this committee about what those are, and certainly some exist, but with your experience in Japan, having done business there, studied there, and having been able to conduct your affairs there in Japanese, I'm wondering if you could explain more to us about difficulties in just doing business there—difficulties that are not non-tariff barriers but are just regular commercial issues that you think would help Canadian business understand better, appreciate better, and penetrate the Japanese market in a better manner.