I call this meeting to order.
Welcome to meeting no. 35 of the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food.
I will start with a few reminders.
Today's meeting is taking place in a hybrid format. The proceedings will be made available via the House of Commons website. Just so you are aware, the webcast will always show the person speaking, rather than the entirety of the committee.
I'd like to remind the participants that screenshots or taking photos of your screen is not permitted.
Colleagues, welcome back. I hope that you had a great week in my absence and that Mr. Barlow was able to chair this committee in a great fashion, which I know he does.
We are continuing our study on global food security, but I want to just make a couple of announcements. We have some substitutions today.
Welcome to Ms. Lambropoulos, who is going to be here on behalf of Mr. Turnbull. We have Ms. Bradford on behalf of Ms. Valdez. Welcome to both of the folks on the Liberal side.
On behalf of Mr. Steinley right now is Mr. Patzer, making his way over, at least for the first hour perhaps, and Mr. Shields for Mr. Barlow.
Welcome, everyone, to the committee.
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2) and the motion adopted by the committee on Monday, May 30, 2022, the committee is resuming its study of global food insecurity.
In accordance with the committee's routine motion concerning connection tests for witnesses, I am informing the committee that Mr. Raymond Orb has unfortunately not completed the tests required prior to the meeting.
However, we have worked on the connection and it looks like it's going to work, and the translators are satisfied enough to move forward with his testimony. I just wanted to make sure that all participants knew that, according to our routine standing order.
Today we have three different witnesses who are going to be appearing. From the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute, we have Tyler McCann, managing director, joining us by video conference. Mr. McCann, welcome. From the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities, we have Mr. Orb, as was mentioned. Welcome to our committee, Mr. Orb, joining us virtually from Regina, it sounded like. From the Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association, we have Gunter Jochum, president.
Welcome to the committee. We look forward to hearing your testimony.
Colleagues, of course, as is customary, we're going to have a five-minute opening remark from each of the witnesses before we proceed to questions.
Mr. McCann, you're first on my list. You have up to five minutes. We'll go over to you, my friend.