Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. It's good to see you all out at our first public meeting of 2015. Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), our orders of the day involve the study of the positive effects of the global market action plan.
Today we have witnesses from the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development. Mr. Bruce Christie is the chief air negotiator and director general of the intellectual property and services trade policy bureau. Then from the Department of Transport we have Marc Rioux, executive director of air policy, international.
I understand Mr. Christie has a statement, so, colleagues, we will go into Mr. Christie's statement. I will remind you that we have set aside a little time at the end to do a bit of committee business just to finish off what we did last week.
Mr. Christie, I will turn the mike over to you.
Welcome to both of you.