Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to the witnesses.
It's good to see some of you again. It's been a little while. It's good to see you back on the fisheries committee.
Perhaps I'll start with Mr. Côté. The other witnesses can confirm this too.
You mentioned, Mr. Côté, in response to my colleague's question—and I thought it was quite telling—the USMCA being one of the key factors in why we're where we are right now regarding the failure of negotiations as they related to the interests of the harvesters and making sure that the concerns of the harvesters were heard, just as it is the responsibility of the organizations you folks represent to ensure their voices are heard in these things.
I just want to ask you if you were ever consulted, or if the harvesters you know of were consulted, during the new NAFTA or USMCA negotiations, and how this may potentially affect your industries.
Go ahead, Mr. Côté.