Colleagues, we're going to bring the meeting back to order.
Welcome to the second hour.
Colleagues, pursuant to the order of reference of Wednesday, January 31, 2024, and the motion adopted by the committee on Thursday, February 8, 2024, the committee is commencing its consideration of Bill C-355, an act to prohibit the export by air of horses for slaughter and to make related amendments to certain acts.
I would now like to welcome the sponsor of the bill, who is no stranger to this committee, Mr. Louis, the MP for Kitchener—Conestoga.
Mr. Louis, it's good to see you.
Of course, this is traditionally where we have an hour of opening panels from the private sponsor, so I'm going to allow you to make an opening statement.
Colleagues, we are pushed a little bit for time. I'm going to try to go until about 1:10 or 1:15, which should give us at least two rounds, if not more, to ask Mr. Louis questions, and then we'll go from there.
Mr. Louis, it's over to you.