Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to our special guests. We appreciate your taking the time to come before committee to express some very valid concerns that are affecting the industry during this time.
I have a few questions as it relates to export market solutions and if you have been consulted as to how we're looking to break into these new markets, perhaps, as people and nations begin to emerge out of the COVID pandemic. Have you been consulted on some of that as well as domestic opportunities?
To start with, since late February it has been clear that COVID-19 is eliminating a lot of our export markets for Canadian fish and seafood. While other nations, like Australia and the U.K., have taken decisive and timely action to reconnect their fish and seafood sectors with high-value overseas markets, in Canada we are still waiting for government action. Are you aware of any government initiatives that are currently reconnecting our fish and seafood to overseas markets?
I will start with Ms. Sonnenberg.