Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I thank the witnesses for being here. My apologizes for being late, but it's defending one's riding day at PROC.
The issue in Ontario around.... I come from Niagara so clearly the wine industry is a big issue for us and there are a number of pieces to that. I apologize in advance if I'm going over the ground again since I missed the beginning of the meeting. There's a debate inside the winegrowers VQA, not all of them, and those who are bigger who do ICBs as to the excise tax piece.
First of all, I'm sure you're aware of the debate. Where do you see that at the moment? Is this a place that's really stuck or is there a way to unstick it from your perspective of finding the partners to have a dialogue? They've done this for the last 25 years. They've come together and gone apart. Then they come back together a bit then they go apart again. At the moment they seem to have gone apart again. We've heard from both sides here obviously. I'm interested to hear what your take is on that and how perhaps we can remedy that piece.