Thank you, Mr. Chair and fellow committee members. It's an honour to present to you today.
Once again, my name is Brad Hanmer. Along with my parents, my two brothers and their families, my wife and our children, we operate a fifth-generation farm, which is 115 years old, in central Saskatchewan. We farm in the small community of Govan, Saskatchewan, which is about one hour north of Regina and one hour south of Humboldt, Saskatchewan.
I'm from a part of the country that proudly supplies food and energy to the world. We are facing a lot of economic uncertainty with the current restrictive environment that our products are facing in accessing world markets.
As our family is preparing to participate in one of Canada's greatest, most-celebrated, billion-dollar megaprojects—in the Prairies we call that spring planting—we are coming before this committee with some great concern about significant economic impacts on our businesses, our industry and our nation.
Our industry is known to be dynamic and innovative. We help feed the planet. We are widely regarded as an agricultural powerhouse, and this is only possible with a vibrant trade environment. Our industry urgently needs action to restore international trade relationships.
As Jean-Marc said in a previous panel, we are currently facing four significant trade challenges in addition to canola. We have the Italy durum issue. We have the India pulse tariff, we have the Saudi Arabian government ban on imports of Canadian barley and wheat, and then we have the further fallout that the canola crisis has created in a lot of the uncertainties we've seen with other crops. That risk is uncertainty, and we're starting to see that a lot of the crops we grow into China could be suffering the same impact. As a result, we're seeing a complete sell-off in a lot of the commodities we export into China.
If I may, Mr. Chair, I'm quickly going to go through a few slides. They are at the privilege of the committee, and they are for your privilege when I'm done. I will go quickly.