Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to our witnesses for their excellent testimony.
I'm going to pose a series of questions and ask all three of you to respond. I'm going to pick up a comment from Ms. Gowriluk where you identified all of the practices that have come already voluntarily, and the emphasis here is “voluntarily”. I've heard the term previously about cross-compliance. There are environmental goals that each of you has articulated, and the government's articulated some.
My questions are this. In your testimony here, we hear you. In your engagement with AAFC and with ECCC, do you feel you've been heard? What would be your comments on a linkage? We are moving into the year where we're negotiating the cap, going forward. What are your comments on cross-linking environmental goals and BRM goals?
Let's begin maybe with Grain Growers, please.