Thank you very much, Chair, and thank you very much to our witnesses for being here.
Mr. Miller, I want to start with you.
You made some comments regarding new seed certification. We had Lori Oatway from Western Crop Innovations appear before this committee. We were talking about the research centre closure specifically, and she made some comments that as a result of these closures, without AAFC being a partner on the research, it could significantly hamper the certification of new varieties, because CFIA asks that AAFC be a partner in that research. With these closures, you are now losing one of the most critical publicly funded partners.
Can you comment on what the ramifications of that could be? You are already talking about how difficult it is to get new seeds certified.