I call this meeting to order.
Thank you very much for coming today.
We have the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne.
With him, from the department, we have Marta Morgan, deputy minister for foreign affairs. We have Arun Thangaraj, chief financial officer and assistant deputy minister for corporate planning, finance and information technology, and Mr. Steve Verheul, chief negotiator and assistant deputy minister, trade policy and negotiations.
Thank you very much for coming.
In accordance with the motion that we passed, Minister, you have 10 minutes to give us your opening remarks, and then we will have questions and answers until about 5:20 p.m., at which point we will go in camera and do some committee business.
Thank you very much.
Minister, please go ahead.