Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'm surprised to hear the member for Guelph, being a former Co-operators guy, not emphasizing estate planning.
I want to thank you all for coming.
Travis, it's good to see you, as always. I hope to be able to visit with a few of you afterwards.
I think it's important that we continue to share some positive ideas on moving forward on agriculture, because as somebody who still helps on my father's farm, I do believe we have great opportunities ahead of us when it comes to agriculture, particularly in our home province of Alberta, but I'm a little biased when it comes to that.
I can assure you that Blake does eat Alberta beef all the time; he just sticks me with the tab, that's the problem.
You've all mentioned something, and Travis, you did in particular, so I'll direct my question to you: you talked about access to the Asian markets. Can you tell us how important that access is, and not only to the Asian markets, but to the European markets and in some of the South American agreements that we have? Do you feel that it's important that we have quick implementation and ratification of these agreements once we make them?