Good afternoon, everyone.
We'll start this 24th meeting of the Standing Committee on International Trade. Today we are dealing with the softwood lumber agreement signed by the governments of the United States and Canada on July 1.
We have as witnesses today John Brodrick, who is a project manager from Buchanan Lumber and also Mayor of High Prairie, Alberta--thank you very much for coming, Your Worship--David Milton, president of the Ontario Lumber Manufacturers Association; and from the Quebec Forest Industry Council, Guy Chevrette, president and executive director.
We will start, as usual, with short presentations. Please limit these to six minutes for each member. Then we'll go to the questioning, which will take place in the same order as the names appear on the list.
Mr. Brodrick, go ahead, please.