I want to welcome to the table today, from the B.C. Landscape & Nursery Association, Tim Loewen, chair, and Hedy Dyck; from the B.C. Cattlemen's Association, we have Ernie Willis; from the B.C. Agriculture Council, Steve Thomson; and from the British Columbia Grape Growers Association, Hans Buchler. I welcome you all to the table, to bring your ideas.
We have an hour and a half this morning. We're going to hold you all to a ten-minute opening comment, and then we'll start our rounds of questioning.
With that, I'll turn it over to Mr. Loewen.