Thank you, Mr. Chair.
This is a very important subject, as you well know. What we've had is I think a very unanimous call from the supply managed sector: the Canadian Hatching Egg Producers, the Dairy Farmers of Canada, the Egg Farmers of Canada, the Chicken Farmers of Canada, the Canadian Turkey Marketing Agency. All of them called on the government to stand strong in its rejection of these proposals, which essentially are a death by a thousand cuts. I would agree with you, Mr. Gauthier, that it's not eliminating the supply managed sector immediately, but what it does is continue to push us back, and that has a very negative impact on the supply managed sector. When we see what has happened with our softwood industry, with our shipbuilding industry.... These are all self-inflicted attacks on our own industries, because we have not negotiated effectively.
I'm wondering, to start, about two things you mentioned in your presentation. One is that there are ongoing consultations with the supply managed sector. I'm wondering what character those ongoing consultations or communications with the supply managed sector have. Secondly, what impact analysis has been done on the impacts of what is on the table, which is essentially pushing us back, in the supply managed sector?