Thank you, sir.
I'm making a presentation on behalf of the Fur Institute of Canada. The executive director, Rob Cahill, and the chairman of the sealing committee of the Fur Institute of Canada asked me to make this presentation.
For those of you who aren't aware, the Fur Institute of Canada constitutes 168 members. That includes all 13 provincial and territorial wildlife departments, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, aboriginal groups, and conservation and animal welfare interests in all sectors. So it's a national body. It represents people in the primary producing area of the fur industry throughout the country.
The Fur Institute was established in 1983 by the Council of Wildlife Ministers to act as a round table on animal welfare and conservation issues in relation to fur-bearing animals in Canada. The FIC maintains the world's leading trap research and testing program at our Alberta research--