Good morning everyone. It's great to be here in Windsor. You know that we are the House of Commons trade committee.
We are a very active committee. We have a lot of things on our plate. We're finishing up the CETA agreement and we have the softwood lumber issue, but the biggest thing on our plate right now is the TPP. Since Parliament started, our committee has been travelling the country. This is our sixth province. We have four provinces and the territories left to visit. We're also doing a lot of consultations in Ottawa with various stakeholders.
In our last few meetings, we've opened up the last hour to the public to get their views on the TPP. We'll be doing this over the next few months. We have also received submissions from the public via email, and we're at over 10,000 right now. We'll be taking them and putting them all together for our final report.
That said, we have four panels this morning. With us on our first panel we have Unifor, the Windsor and District Labour Council, and the Essex County Federation of Agriculture.
The members of our committee are from across the country. We have Karen Ludwig from New Brunswick, Linda Lapointe from Quebec, and Mr. Peterson from Ontario. We also have Mr. Van Kesteren from Ontario and Ms. Ramsey from Ontario. Gerry Ritz and Randy Hoback are from Saskatchewan. So we have good representation.
Without further ado, we'll start with our witnesses.
If Unifor wants to start for five minutes, you can go ahead, sir.