Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Welcome to both of our witnesses here today. It's an interesting discussion.
Mr. Trew, I have a couple of points to make. I'm going to ask for a very short, succinct answer on a couple of them.
You talked about groups of folks across Canada who are against the CETA with the EU. You mentioned labour and farm groups. Labour? that may be so. But we met with the beef industry, we met with the pork industry, we met with the grains and oilseeds industry, we met with the GMO-free guys, we met with organic farmers. All of them are supporting this. So I question very seriously who you're talking about when you are talking about farm groups, outside the National Farmers Union.
You also said that in the October briefing the DFAIT negotiators were not taking notes. Were they taking notes or not? Were they possibly not taking notes? What's the answer? Were you in the room? Or was it a conference call?
Were they taking notes or not? I just need an answer on that.