Thank you, Madam Chairperson.
I'd like to support my colleague in raising this matter.
First of all, to the witnesses, we certainly know and appreciate that you're waiting. We hope you have some patience as we just raise this matter.
I do feel a sense of frustration with this issue of the CETA agreement between Canada and the European Union. We've raised this before. We believe it's a very important issue that the committee should study. We're not wanting to debate the issue today, but we do want the committee to consider the merits and need to have a study and witnesses on this issue. We're calling for just one meeting—possibly two.
I would just ask the witnesses to bear with us, because we have been trying to get this motion before the committee. We have brought it forward--