Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, folks, for your presentations.
I will begin with the Pacific Alliance, and this is mainly to the pulse industry. There is a kind of debate about what the Pacific Alliance is really and what it is going to do for us. From my perspective and from everything I've heard to date, it seems to be a kind of high-level club in which we can have discussions, but it's not a specific trade agreement with rules.
Nick, earlier you may have touched on how it would be useful. I'm still trying to figure out the usefulness of this Pacific Alliance, other than having wonderful discussions and meetings. You may have touched on its being an area in which perhaps you can have some discussions, whether on zero tolerance issues, methods, or whatever, and can head off a problem before it occurs.
What do you see as the benefit of the Pacific Alliance, which is an entirely new concept, different from anything I've seen discussed around here? It's not a trade agreement; we already have trade agreements with these countries. The department couldn't explain what we're doing in doing this study on the Pacific Alliance, but we're into it.