We'll get the meeting under way and welcome all our witnesses to the table as we continue our study on the Growing Forward agricultural policy framework.
We welcome to the table this afternoon David Marit, from the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities; from the Dairy Producers of Canada, no stranger here, Jacques Laforge; from the Chicken Farmers of Canada, David Fuller; from the Canadian Egg Marketing Agency, Harold Froese; from the Canadian Hatching Egg Producers, we have Errol Halkai. Welcome. From the Canadian Co-operative Association we are joined by Carol Hunter and Lynne Markell.
I welcome all of you to the table.
I understand from the supply management groups that Jacques and Harold will be making the opening comments.
I ask that everybody keep their comments under or as close as possible to ten minutes so we can get in as much questioning as possible.
Mr. Marit, would you go first?