Hello, everyone. Thank you to our witnesses for coming.
Colleagues, we are here once again to review the changes to the Fisheries Act. I won't go into the full motion, but pursuant to Standing Order 108(2) and the motion adopted by the committee on Monday, September 19, the committee is to review changes made to the Fisheries Act.
Normally each group is assigned 10 minutes for opening remarks. Then we ask questions, and we will likely have several rounds. I'd like to remind members of the committee that we're going to have 15 minutes at the end, at 5:15, to do committee business.
I would like to welcome John Oliver from the riding of Oakville. He is replacing Mr. McDonald today. Welcome, sir.
We will go to our first group, the Canadian Federation of Agriculture. We have two representatives, Mr. Ron Bonnett and Mr. Drew Black.
Mr. Bonnett, please proceed.