I call this meeting to order.
Welcome to meeting No. 66 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.
We have a lot of substitutions this evening. Ms. Khalid is replacing Mr. Turnbull, Mr. Bains may be replacing Ms. Valdez for the second half of the meeting, Mr. Doherty is replacing Mr. Barlow, Mr. Johns is replacing Mr. MacGregor, and Ms. Lantsman is replacing Ms. Rood.
Welcome to the committee.
It's great to see you all.
Colleagues, we were a bit disrupted by the votes.
I don't foresee there being a vote. I don't think that's possible, but in case somehow this happens, I would ask for your unanimous consent that if a vote comes up, we vote virtually from this room and that we don't take, necessarily 10 or 15 minutes.
As the chair, I will give a reasonable period to vote, but we don't want to disrupt our witnesses who are in the room.
Is that agreed?