I want to thank everyone for their confidence in me to take this illustrious chair. I think the committee, since I've been sitting on it since 2004, has done an excellent job. As was said, we had a great chair in Gerry, and I got to serve under Paul as well, when he was chairing the committee. We've often been able to get by our political differences and focus on the issues that are important to farmers. And that's what we're here today about--laying out the groundwork for this next session and making sure we always keep in mind that we're serving our agricultural community from one end and from one side of this country to the other.
We do have the planning of future business and a few motions here, from Mr. Bellavance and Mr. Miller.
I would entertain how you want to deal with this, if you want to go in camera or stay out of camera. It's your pleasure.
Wayne.