Thank you, Mr. Chair.
And thank you to our guests for being with us today.
I'm actually sitting in today for Gerald Keddy, who's the parliamentary secretary for international trade. He's actually on his way to Japan. I and another member of this committee, Monsieur Morin from the NDP, are heading there tomorrow. There's a group of us going. I'm the co-chair of the Canada-Japan parliamentary association, and we have our biannual discussions with those from the Diet. We are going to go to the earthquake zone for a couple of days also.
I have a couple of questions. Sorry, but I'm going to focus on Professor Dierkes because I don't plant canola seed.