Colleagues, welcome back.
Thank you, Madam Clerk, for the quick changeover with our witnesses.
We're going to get right to opening statements so that we can get to questions, particularly with the impending vote.
Today I'm pleased to be able to welcome Eric Toensmeier, who is the director of the Perennial Agriculture Institute, which I believe is connected with Yale University, although it's not in my notes; Dr. Rod MacRae, who serves at the faculty of environmental and urban change at York University; and Mr. Ryan Cullen, who is a small-scale and urban agriculture entrepreneur at City of Greens farm.
Each of you will have five minutes for opening remarks and we will get right to that.
Mr. Toensmeier, I'll start with you, for five minutes.