Colleagues, we're back. Thank you to our entire team for helping transition very quickly.
Our second panel for the second hour for the start of our study is joining us by teleconference today.
We have Paul Hagerman who's the director of public policy at the Canadian Foodgrains Bank. We have Maud Labat, trade counsellor, trade and economic section at the Delegation of the European Union to Canada. We have Maximo Torero Cullen who is the chief economist at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Thank you so much to all the witnesses for their participation today.
Colleagues, we do have a procedural vote that is upcoming. We have the ability to not necessarily break at that time. I believe I have unanimous consent in the room to continue through the bells, and indeed I've talked to all of our colleagues. I think the preference is to vote by application such that we will stretch it as close as possible, given that we have these wonderful witnesses before us.
With that, I'm going to start with Ms. Labat.
You have five minutes for opening remarks.