I call this meeting to order.
I'd like to start off by welcoming our guests from the Canadian Cattlemen's Association, Mr. Masswohl and Mr. Laycraft.
Thanks very much for coming at fairly short notice. We do appreciate that.
For the committee's information, we also tried to have the Canadian Pork Council here today and they couldn't come at short notice, but they are booked for next Thursday. And of course the NFU is here on Tuesday.
Before we get started, we do have some business to take care of, and perhaps I could suggest that maybe at quarter to one, if questioning is done by then, we could move to that.
Anyway, we'll start. Mr. Laycraft, are you going to start?