I call the meeting to order.
Good morning, everyone. We welcome back members of Parliament after their week in the constituency. For anybody who is just visiting our committee, welcome.
We have a very busy agenda for our committee this session. We are dealing with finishing up the European agreement and we have the TPP. We also have other issues.
One very important issue, which is ongoing, is of course the softwood lumber issue. Our committee has already had a meeting with what I guess you would call the east side: we had Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritimes already visit our committee with some submissions. Today we welcome the crew from out west, in beautiful British Columbia. We were there in our TPP travels and we saw some of you out there.
I would like also to apologize for pushing this meeting forward. We had a situation, and I really appreciate how you witnesses accommodated it for us.
On that note, today's meeting is going to be split into two hours. The first hour is with the people we have in front of us. In the second hour, testimony will be via satellite.
With us today from British Columbia, from the B.C. Lumber Trade Council, we have Susan Yurkovich, and I have Duncan Davies.
Do you have two hats on today?