Welcome to the second hour of our continuing study on APF. Today with us in this part of the discussion we have the Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council with Doug Chorney and Portia MacDonald-Dewhirst, and also Canadian Organic Growers with Ashley St Hilaire, director, and Geneviève Grossenbacher.
In full disclosure, I've spent a lot of hours with Mr. Chorney and Ms. MacDonald-Dewhirst as part of the Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council, and they do fantastic work. Probably the good thing about it is I'm not going to be able to ask you questions and so it will be very much impartial, but I certainly want to highlight the work you've been doing for the past few years.
Also, on Canadian Organic, part of my farm is certified organic and so again I will not be able to ask any questions. I will be very neutral on this one, but I'm sure it's going to be a very good discussion.
We'll start with opening statements from Ms. MacDonald-Dewhirst for up to 10 minutes.