Welcome back, everyone.
We will now resume our meeting on the study on the situation at the Russia-Ukraine border and implications for peace and security.
I'd like to welcome our next roster of witnesses.
We're grateful to have Mr. Paul Hagerman, director of public policy at the Canadian Foodgrains Bank. From the Grain Farmers of Ontario, we have Ms. Deborah Conlon, director for government relations. From SOCODEVI, we have François Dionne, director of the international program.
I want to explain to each of our witnesses that you have five minutes for your opening remarks, after which we will go to the members for questions.
If you're very close to the five-minute mark, I will hold my phone up, which means you should please wrap up your comments within 15 to 20 seconds. That's for your opening remarks as well as questions that are posed by the members here, because we're allotted time frames for each one of those questions.
That said, we will start with you, Mr. Hagerman. The floor is yours. You have five minutes for your opening remarks.