Welcome, everyone, to our agriculture committee meeting. It's a very interesting one today. We have the honour of having the Minister of Agriculture, the Honourable Lawrence MacAulay, a good maritimer who escaped the snowstorm today with me, here to explain his mandate letter and also to talk about the main estimates.
We'll proceed with the minister's presentation.
You will have your opening statement, Mr. Minister, and after that we'll go with the question period.
Thank you.