The second thing is that we have gotten notification that we're going to be travelling to Washington, barring some unforeseeable circumstances. I think all parties have figured out who is going. This is just to let you know.
That's all I have for business. We're going to go right to our study.
As you know, our committee is very busy with all the various trade agreements we have around the world. Right now we are embarking on a new study. It's a study of potential trade with Mercosur. The Mercosur countries are four: Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay. That's 260 million people. They have a GDP together of $2.4 trillion.
This is a great opportunity for us to look at. We're going to have four meetings on this over the next few weeks. Today we're fortunate to have our first two witnesses with us. We have witnesses from the Brazil-Canada Chamber of Commerce and a witness from the Canadian Steel Producers Association.
If this is your first time in front of our committee, note that we usually like to keep the presentations fairly tight so that we have lots of opportunity for dialogue with MPs.
Without further ado I'm going to ask the Brazil-Canada Chamber of Commerce, Ms. Paola Saad, to address us.
You're the first to come before our committee on Mercosur, so welcome. You have the floor.