Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I apologize to the witnesses who are here; however, it's an important point of order.
Yesterday the Subcommittee on Food Safety held its first meeting, and this committee needs to address what happened there. Let me start by reading a letter from a subcommittee member, David Anderson, who was at the committee yesterday.
I'd like this read into the record. That's why I'm going to read it. He says:
As a member of the food safety subcommittee, I am very concerned over the activities of the first meeting of the subcommittee on March 25.
The opposition proposed an unproductive amendment, which was ruled out of order. The amendment seemed to expand the activities of the subcommittee outside of the mandate given it by the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food--