Thank you, Chair.
Thank you, gentlemen, for coming in this morning. It's great to see you here.
It's good to see you again, Steve. I haven't seen you for a couple of years, but I know you work hard on behalf of Canada and you're very capable of balancing tricky subjects and walking that fine line. I'm very confident that we'll have good negotiations because you're there. Because of your background in the agriculture sector, a lot of people out west are very comfortable with your being there.
One of the concerns I have, as we look at a trade agreement with the EU, is how it trickles into the EU countries. We have our own provinces and interprovincial trade barriers here in Saskatchewan that create our own set of issues. If we do a trade agreement with the EU, will individual EU countries be able to opt out of that trade agreement or pick and choose parts of it?