Good morning, everyone.
We have three items on the agenda today. We're going to hear from our witness first, and then we'll go to a discussion of the subcommittee report, just looking for approval or modification of the subcommittee report by the full committee. In that report we dealt with several issues, but first and foremost the study of North American trade and beyond. But I'll talk about that later. And finally, we have Mr. Julian's two motions, should he choose to bring them forth, and I think he's given indication that he will. So we will deal with those as well.
I'd like to start by thanking our witness very much for coming here on very short notice. Carol Osmond is the senior policy adviser for the Canadian Association of Importers and Exporters. The other witnesses apparently could not come, and we appreciate it very much that Ms. Osmond has agreed to come today.
You have a very short presentation, I understand, so perhaps we could be ready with questions as soon as possible. We'll probably go until about 10:15 with the witness and then get to the other business of the committee.
Again, Ms. Osmond, thank you very much for being here today. I just want to say one more thing before you actually get started. For several meetings now, we have been dealing with our study of North American trade and also trade beyond North America, and the proposal is to continue that until Christmas. But I consider this to be certainly a part of that study, and we'll talk about that once we have given the witness the chance to make her presentation and have gone to questions.
Go ahead with your presentation, please, Ms. Osmond.