I call our meeting to order. I would just like to remind everyone that our meeting is televised today.
Mr. Minister, thank you for coming here today.
Mr. Da Pont and Mr. Knubley, thanks for joining us.
I'll just remind everyone that we do have votes. An e-mail just came saying they will be at 4:23, so I'm going to adjourn the meeting at 4:15. That will give us eight minutes to walk down the hall. I hope nobody disagrees with that. That should give us lots of time.
In order to get going, as chair I would like to call vote 1 under Agriculture and Agri-Food and open up the discussion by turning it over to you for your remarks.
Thank you.