I am going to call the meeting to order.
I want to welcome everyone, particularly our witnesses: Claude Miville, from the Canadian Swine Research and Development Cluster; JoAnne Buth, president of the Canola Council of Canada; Jim Brandle, chief executive officer of Vineland Research and Innovation Centre; and Sylvain Charlebois, associate dean at the University of Guelph.
Thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedules to join us today.
We are commencing today a study of Growing Forward 2. Our comments are intended to be within the confines, essentially, of that, although not completely restricted to that. We thought it important to continue with our study of the biotechnology industry, and for those reasons you've been invited to speak to us today.
You will each be given 10 minutes to speak. Following four presentations, we will begin questioning. We will have five-minute rounds and we'll be here for the full two hours, if we're all up to that.
I will start, if I might, with Mr. Miville from the Canadian Swine Research and Development Cluster.