Mr. Chairman and committee, good afternoon, and thank you very much for having us today.
We're very interested in talking about Canada's value-added canola sector and about increasing processing capacity for our exports of seed, meal and oil, as well as the domestic market through biofuels.
First, as a bit of background about the Canola Council, we represent the whole canola value chain in Canada. That's 43,000 canola growers, seed developers, the processors who crush canola seed into oil for humans and meal for livestock feed, and exporters of raw canola seed.
I hope I'm not speaking too quickly and the translation is keeping up okay.