Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I was hoping that our witnesses for agriculture would be able to stay a bit longer. Mr. Holder has a couple of agriculture questions.
Just before I turn it over to him--since our witnesses will have to leave soon--I would make just one comment. I believe it was Mr. Stanford who made the comment about the Doha Round of the WTO. Without question, we would prefer to see the multilateral forum work as well, and have certainly been supporting that as a government. The issue is that when the multilateral forum is bogged down, there's no choice but to go out and look at bilateral agreements. We've been doing that fairly successfully, which is, I think, at the end of the day, good for agriculture. We'd like to see the multilateral forum move forward, but when it's not moving, it's no good to stand still.
Mr. Holder has a couple of agriculture questions he wants to get on the record.