Thank you, Chair.
Thank you, Minister, for coming today.
I've been talking to a lot of my farmers and ranchers, and certainly I want to thank you, Minister Fast, and the Prime Minister for all of the work you've done on the CETA agreement. I think it's a huge benefit for our country, opening up a huge market—500 million people, as I understand.
As you're aware, our committee undertook a study on this agreement and reported back to the House. I think we had some very positive comments from many of the stakeholders that were here. Over the next couple of days in our meetings, we're actually going to review this again. Unfortunately, the NDP oppose this deal despite hog, cattle, grains, oilseeds, and horticultural farmers and processors throughout Canada benefiting from this massive EU market that is being opened up for our agricultural sector.
I would like you to speak on this. There is money in the estimates for market development for those products in Europe. Can you comment on the opposition NDP on free trade with Europe?