Thank you to our witnesses for being here.
I want to start with the Beef Cattle Research Council.
Ms. Brocklebank, thank you for your comments. I just want to ask you a question on the impact the research closures are going to have on this industry.
I find it interesting that when beef prices are finally at a level where ranchers are making a profit, we see that Canada, after the CFIA missed the deadline by a year, now has a negligible risk status for BSE. We're opening markets in South Korea, and we're trying to get back into China. It just seems like it is ill timing to close three research centres—Lacombe, Quebec City and Nappan—that are focused on beef research.
Does it seem like it is—I don't want to say targeting—not good timing to close three critical beef research centres in Canada?