Good afternoon, everyone. This is our final panel for the day. It's our final panel for our western trip. Our committee has travelled. We started on Sunday. We did B.C. on Monday, Alberta on Tuesday, Saskatchewan on Wednesday, and here we are in Manitoba today. We've heard from many witnesses, and we had a lot of audience come to many of the sessions also.
This is the study on TPP. It's a big agreement, worth a trillion dollars in world trade. When you look at the context of the 6,000-page TPP agreement, it would affect every Canadian, whether you're buying or selling goods, or involved in any kind of service sector.
We started this process right after this Parliament started. We heard from many witnesses in Ottawa, and of course, we're going to go right across the country. We're going to do central Canada in a couple of weeks' time. We're doing Atlantic Canada in the fall. We're also going to Skype with the territories. We'll also continue to hear from other countries and other Canadians in Ottawa.
Since there was such a groundswell of interest in TPP, we have been taking submissions from the general public. I think we have over 10,000 right now, and we extended the deadline until the end of June for those submissions.
Also, we're going to be sending a notice to all members of Parliament because of the interest in the TPP, to encourage them to have town hall meetings over the next few months. We're going to give them until the end of July to put in their submissions on what they're hearing on the ground level at their town hall meetings.
When this is all pulled together, our committee will sit down and do a report with all our findings, probably later in the fall. We're hoping to have a report to the House of Commons for MPs to look at by the end of the year. They will see that at the first of the year as they go forward in dealing with the TPP and how we're going to deal with it in the House of Commons. That's how we're operating.
We're going to start off with our witnesses today. We have with us Todd Burns from Cypher. From the Council of Canadians, we have Brigette DePape. I hear it's your first time at a committee. We have Douglas Tingey, also with the Council of Canadians. From the Manitoba Federation of Labour, we have two witnesses: Kevin Rebeck and Anna Rothney.
Welcome, everyone. We have five minutes for each group. If you can keep to five minutes, I would appreciate it. If it goes over, I'll have to put my hand up, but try doing the five minutes so we can give lots of time for dialogue between members and you.
We'll start off with Cypher. Go ahead, sir.