Thank you, Your Excellency, for returning.
You mentioned in one of your earlier comments the closeness we share as nations—our relationship. That is not only between countries. For many of us, that is also personal, as we have heritage from Ukraine—all four of my grandparents were born there. You also mentioned energy security, and we were just talking about agriculture. My own roots come from the farming fields of Ukraine. My grandparents were there.
In your opening comments, you talked about the grain exports and that program. Can you talk about the status of that? As a committee, we have a notice of motion on file to look at the global resource challenges that this invasion has brought, be it on food, fuel or fertilizer. I hope we will get to that study fairly soon.
Can you talk about the situation at present? We're going into spring here in Ukraine and in Canada as well, so what does it look like?