Thank you, Chair.
I, too, would like to wish Mr. Storseth a happy birthday. I definitely wouldn't want to leave him out, and I'm sure he'll stop by for his gift a little bit later on.
I also would like to thank the witnesses for coming by here today to talk about market access. That is very important to our government, as you've seen in your departments and from how you're working and from the minister's travels these last few years. I don't know if there's anybody who's worked harder, as a minister, on market access than the minister we have today. I think pretty well every weekend or every break week, when he has time to travel, he's out there opening up a market, whether it's for beef producers or canola producers, or he's solving an issue with a non-tariff trade barrier, usually a relevant issue.
I'm going to talk to you a little bit about process and how you operate, and whether there are things you think we should be looking at through Growing Forward that may even make the process better. I'm sure you guys are looking at that all the time.
First, how do you interact with our consulates and our trade offices in different regions of the world, and how do you utilize their services to gather intelligence to relay back to the industry?