Good morning, everyone. Welcome to meeting number 79 of the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food. Our orders of the day, pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), are a study of losses in honeybee colonies.
Joining us today for the first hour, from CropLife Canada, is Pierre Petelle, vice-president of chemistry, and Maria Trainer, managing director of regulatory affairs; and from the Grain Farmers of Ontario, we have Mr. John Cowan, vice-president of strategic development.
I'll ask you to each make an opening presentation, hopefully for no more than 10 minutes. If you do go over, I'll cut you off, because we do have a lot of witnesses today and we'd like to hear from everybody.
John, if you'd like to start, then we'll just move down in the order.