Ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to call the meeting to order. Our chair, Mr. Richardson, is unexpectedly slightly delayed, so as the vice-chair I'll call the meeting to order for this Monday, November 15.
We have today, pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), the study of free trade between Canada and the European Union.
We're very pleased to have with us from the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Mr. John Kur, director general, Europe and Eurasia. With us also is Mr. Steve Verheul, chief trade negotiator, Canada-European Union. Then later on, between 4:30 p.m. and 5:00 p.m., from the Canada-Europe Roundtable for Business, we have Jason Langrish, executive director. Then later on we have Sandy Boyle, Jean-François Bence, Rose D'Sa, and José Isaias.
We welcome them all and we welcome our chair. As I said, he was just a little bit late.
Mr. Chair, we're ready to go. Get back in your chair.