Thank you, Mr. Minister. We appreciate the comments.
I should mention that joining the minister at the table is Andrew Marsland, who is no stranger to the committee. He is the assistant deputy minister of the strategic policy branch of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Also from the Department of the Environment, we have Gord Owen, who is the director general of energy and transportation.
With that, we're going to open it up for questions. We're going to keep it to five-minute rounds, since we have only an hour with the minister.
Mr. Easter shall kick us off.