Welcome, everybody, to our consultation process.
This is our third panel today, on our second day of our trip across the country. We'll be going to every province. In Ottawa we'll also be hearing from the territories through Skype. We've already met many witnesses in Ottawa.
We're also getting submissions from the public. We had 5,000 last week, and I think we're up to 15,000. We'll be open to many more till the end of June. Then we'll pull it all together.
To the folks here, we're going to try to do this report this year. It's ambitious to do it. As many of you know, I think it's 6,000 pages. We're going to try to reach out to the whole country and everybody, but we also have to go through the report ourselves, draft it, and put it in front of Parliament. Our general idea is to have this before Parliament before the end of the year so that other members of Parliament can see it before there's any vote in the House of Commons. I'm sure there'll also be lots of debate in the House of Commons.
That's the lay of the land in terms of how we're operating.
Today we'd like to give each witness five minutes. We have with us the canola producers, the pulse growers, and the wheat commission: that's multi-grain, so we're good to go.