I call this meeting to order.
We are privileged to have Minister Emerson, Minister of International Trade, with us today; and Minister Strahl, Minister of Agriculture and Minister responsible for the Canadian Wheat Board.
We have Steve Verheul back again. It's good to see you. And John Gero, who is with the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, is also here today.
Welcome, all of you, to the committee table.
We're going to keep things flowing quite smoothly today. We're going to give the two ministers fifteen minutes total time to make a presentation, and we're going to go with five-minute rounds so that we can get in as many questions and as many questioners as possible in the time we have allocated.
With that, I'll turn it over to Minister Emerson for his opening comments.