Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Welcome to the honoured guests here as well.
When I look at Canada's history, we have come across as a trading nation for the past 100 years, or whatever that timeframe is, and now we are looking at signing a free trade agreement with Colombia. You're here in particular as members of the Canadian grain market and the hog producers.
If I look at all the provinces of Canada, there's only one province--Saskatchewan--that has had positive growth and a surplus budget in the last year. The particular reason for that is that Saskatchewan is the province doing the most trade outside the North American market.
What is your opinion about that? Do you see that as one reason we should be opening up to new countries like Colombia?