Thank you very much.
Welcome to the committee and thank you for being here this morning. I picked blueberries back in the eighties and I eat blueberries every morning, so we buy about 200 to 250 pounds a year. I know it's an excellent source of a lot of nutritional stuff that we should be eating, so I'm fully supportive of the blueberry industry in the Fraser Valley.
The TPP talks began back in 2005 and the negotiations started in 2008. Canada did not enter the talks until 2012 and by that time we'd had 14 rounds of negotiations and part of the conditions for us to get in was that those rounds had been negotiated. We wouldn't be opening them up; they're set in place.
Are you concerned that we weren't at the table for those 14 rounds?