We're going to call our meeting to order. We have a quorum and we'll have more joining us.
I'd like to thank our witnesses for being here today. We appreciate that.
I hope all of our members and staff and everyone had a great Christmas, and it's good to get back to work.
We're going to continue our study on Growing Forward 2, and of course we're just beginning the theme right now on marketing and trade. The next component of that, based on earlier direction, is on meeting consumer demand.
I just have a comment. We have votes at some point today. I don't know whether the bells will go off before the meeting time is up; I suspect so. In that event, the committee—probably at our next meeting—should just take a few minutes to discuss where we want to go after this, because the weeks will go by in a hurry, and if we book our witnesses at least two weeks in advance, it does save us money overall because usually flights can be cheaper. That is just something to keep in mind.
With no further ado, we'll move to our witnesses. First of all, we have the Agri-Food Export Group Quebec-Canada.
Mr. Coutu, do you want to lead off for 10 minutes or less, please?