Good morning, everybody. As you can see, I'm the chair this morning. Larry called me late last night. He has a death in the family. His aunt died. We told him we could take care of things when he's gone, so he is with his family.
We're going to be continuing our study of competitiveness. We have some speakers here today, but I may ask them to wait, because we have some business we have to deal with before we go to our witnesses. If we can be quick on these three things, we won't leave our witnesses waiting too long.
Number one is a request from the Canadian Pork Council and the Canadian Railroad Association to attend our competitiveness meeting. I don't know that we need a vote on that, but if nobody has a problem with that, then we'll schedule them in.