I call the meeting to order.
I'm sorry to keep everyone waiting. We had votes in the House, and now we have high-level discussions at the back of the room, but we're going to have to proceed without them.
We'll start with our witnesses in our continued study of the free trade negotiations between Canada and Colombia. Today we are welcoming Tom d'Aquino, chief executive and president of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, and Sam Boutziouvis, vice-president of economics and international trade. We also have Carl Potts from Pulse Canada and Greg Simpson from Simpson Seeds.
I think we'll ask Mr. Potts to start off. I understand you're sharing your time to begin with, so could you keep it collectively to 10 minutes? Then I'm going to ask Mr. d'Aquino to give an opening statement as well.
We'll begin with Carl Potts from Pulse Canada.