I call the meeting to order.
Good morning. My name is Mark Eyking and I am the member for Sydney—Victoria. I am also the chair of the Standing Committee on International Trade.
Our committee has been quite active in the last while since Parliament started. We have a couple of things on our plate. We're dealing with finishing up the European agreement and we have softwood lumber issues, but our main issue right now is the TPP.
We are going across the country to listen to Canadians, stakeholders, and whoever wants to talk to us about this trade agreement. We are also constantly holding meetings in Ottawa with stakeholders. We've done the western provinces. We're doing Quebec right now. Starting tomorrow, we are going to do Ontario, and probably the Atlantic provinces and the territories in the fall.
With us in our committee we have Madam Ludwig, from New Brunswick; Mr. Peterson, from Ontario; Madam Lapointe, from Quebec; Ms. Ramsey and Mr. Van Kesteren, from southern Ontario; and, from the wonderful province of Saskatchewan, Mr. Hoback. This is our committee today. We have other members, but they're in Ottawa right now. We take turns travelling around the country.
We will give the witnesses, or whoever is representing witnesses, five minutes each.
On this first panel, we have the Desjardins Group, the Québec Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Québec International, and the Réseau québécois sur l'intégration continentale.
We're going to start with the Desjardins Group.
Go ahead, Mr. Brun.