Gentlemen, welcome to the committee this morning.
We have before us today Gary Pike, chief executive officer of Pike Management Group, and Jim Smolick—no stranger to the committee—president of the Grain Growers of Canada. It's good to see you, Jim. Also here is Dr. Al Loyns, appearing as an individual; and with the Canadian Cooperative Association, Herb Carlson, member of the board of directors. Welcome, gentlemen.
We have you each down for about a ten-minute maximum presentation. I'll start waving when you have a minute left. We're trying to squeeze everything into an hour, which is almost impossible.
I'll assess the time at that point. We may have to drop to five minutes for the opening rounds, if that's okay, gentlemen. May I have some consensus on that at this point? It may be all we get.