Thank you, Mr. Chair, and I'd also like to thank all of our witnesses for being here today. There's been some really interesting testimony thus far.
I'd like to first ask my questions of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture. This has been a very difficult year in Canada with the extreme weather events we're seeing right across the country. It's obviously been headlined by the worst wildfire season we've had in Canadian history, and that was by the end of June. I know that my province of B.C. was hit very hard, with wildfires particularly impacting a lot of the key agricultural areas, including some of our most productive crops.
I was wondering, Mr. Currie and Mr. Berrigan, if you could provide some information to this committee about the level of economic losses you expect this year from the forest fires and other extreme weather events, and how you see this projecting forward over time.