Welcome to the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food. We have a table of witnesses here with us today, but just before we go forward, I would like to share with the committee an email I received this morning that I think is important. We'll take it to the business session of the meeting. It reads as follows:
On behalf of the Honourable, Lawrence MacAulay, PC, MP, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, I would like to offer a briefing on the recent detection of genetically modified wheat in Alberta to the members of the Standing Committee on Agri-Food and Agriculture. Officials from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada will be made available to present an overview and answer questions from the committee.
I just wanted to let you know about this email. We received it at 11:50 this morning.
We will now turn to our witnesses.
I know the practice is always to have documents presented in both languages. We have one here that is in English only. There are a lot of slides in it. We would need consent. We have already sent it to translation and it will be distributed, but I will respect the committee's decision if it decides it wants to wait until copies in both languages are available.
Are there any comments?
What do you think, Mr. Poissant?