I'd like to welcome everyone here to the first meeting of our cross-country tour looking into the future of agriculture and particularly how we can encourage and keep young people in agriculture.
Before we go to our witnesses, I'd like to thank MP Ron Cannan for having us.
It's a beautiful town here, Ron, and we're very happy to be in Kelowna.
Thanks again to our witnesses for being here today. We really appreciate your taking the time out of your busy schedules. I'm a farmer myself, so I know what it's like, especially on a nice day like this, to leave what you're doing, but I think you'll agree with me that this is a very important study. We appreciate it.
We'd like you to give a presentation for five to seven minutes, if you could. I'm not going to cut you off if you're a little over that. The more time we have for questions--and I'm sure there will be lots of them--the better.
With no further ado, I'm going to go with ladies first and ask for Ms. Van Roechoudt to go ahead. Thank you very much.