Thank you very much, Chair.
I want to thank all the witnesses for being here. This is not the first time, nor certainly will it be the last. It's very important to have you here. Mostly, as a committee, we have been doing more reports than legislation, and your testimony for those reports really helps shape what's going on. We really appreciate that.
At the same time, when legislation comes, it's important, because you are the ones on the ground. It's really important for us to hear about that. It's why I appreciate you coming in and being here right off the top for this important study.
I will start with Ms. Nix, the assistant deputy minister for Agriculture.
You mentioned off the top the correspondence that Agriculture has received. I'm sure all of us have heard this in conversations at home in our ridings. There have been lots of petitions, and many people have been talking to us.
Can you give us a sense of the nature of that correspondence, how much of it was supportive, how much was against it and what common concerns you have heard from Canadians, as all of us have?