I would like to call the fifth meeting of the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food to order, please.
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), we are doing a study of the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and the effects of it on the Canadian agriculture sector.
Today we have witnesses, and they're split into two groups. The first group will be for the first hour, from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. That includes the National Cattle Feeders' Association: Mr. Bryan Walton, general manager, and Mr. André Roy, member and executive director
of la Fédération des producteurs de bovins du Québec.
Then we also have a video conference with the Alberta Pork Producers Development Corporation. Mr. Darcy Fitzgerald, executive director, joins us by video conference from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Welcome to our witnesses. You each have 10 minutes to give opening remarks. I will turn it over to the National Cattle Feeders' Association.