Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thanks to our witnesses. I would be remiss if I missed the opportunity to say, yes, I did live in Jasper at one time. It's a beautiful part of the country. It's a very diverse and beautiful country. You can google “happy Kelowna” and find not only why the Okanagan is making people happy, but that it has some international award-winning wine.
Mayor Banman, I know that the agricultural community is very important to our community as well. The cherry growers are looking at the opportunities with 500 million more mouths to be fed and watered and at all the opportunities the Canada-EU agreement provides.
I need just one clarification. In your opening comments, Your Worship, you said, “While our businesses will soon have access to a market almost 15 times the size of Canada's economy, so too will our consumers”, which is “one area in which we would ask the Government of Canada to ensure that they remain sensitive to our Abbotsford-based businesses.”