We will commence the 15th meeting of this session of the Standing Committee on International Trade.
This morning we have witnesses from Agri-Traçabilité Québec Inc., Levinoff-Colbex, and the Canadian Meat Council. We'll begin with statements from our witnesses, followed by our usual round of questioning.
I'm sorry for the slow start. We had some committee business, so we'll probably go until 10:15, if that's agreeable to the witnesses. We have some committee business to deal with after that, at which point I think we'll go in camera.
I will introduce our guests. First we have James Laws, the executive director of the Canadian Meat Council. Then we have Brian Read from Levinoff-Colbex; and Linda Marchand, the executive director of Agri-Traçabilité.
We'll start with a brief comment from James Laws on the broader perspective, and then we'll move to Brian for more of a business perspective.