Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to our witnesses for appearing before us today.
Having listened to you, I know clearly this is a serious situation for the industry. It's unfortunate that as witnesses from outside of the political realm you were just subjected to a political rant, as my colleague put it, on an occasion when we're here really to discuss the seriousness of this issue.
I was reading a letter here that you'd written to both ministers, dated February 23. It would appear in the letter that what's happening on March 16 is a foregone conclusion. I'm looking at this, and it says the final rule that was published in January will go into effect March 16. My question is, what's happened in the interim? What's happened leading up to this? We're talking about two weeks away, and you're here before the committee today. Have you been partnering with similar organizations in the U.S. to try to get this handled through the political realm there, or the government there?