Good morning everybody, and welcome to our committee meeting. We are the international trade committee from the House of Commons, and we are a very active committee. We have a lot on our plate since Parliament resumed. We have softwood lumber issues. We are finishing up on the European agreement, and right now we are up to our eyeballs on the TPP.
What we have decided on our committee is to travel the country and visit all the provinces and territories, and listen to people, companies, stakeholders, consumers, workers, and everybody who is going to be affected by the TPP agreement. Everybody will be, one way or another. Whether you're buying a product at a local hardware store, or whatever you're doing, it's going to have a big impact, and it is a big trade bloc. That is what we are doing, and we're going to be doing that throughout the year. In the new year, we'll have the report in to the House of Commons for a debate.
On that note, we have with us members of Parliament from right across the country. We have Mr. Hoback and Mr. Ritz from Saskatchewan. From Ontario, we have Mr. Van Kesteren, Ms. Ramsey, Mr. Peterson, and Mr. Fonseca. Ms. Ludwig is from New Brunswick, and Madam Lapointe is from Quebec. We have a broad group from across the country. I am Mark Eyking. I am the chair, and I am from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
The way we do it is we give each panellist or group roughly five minutes to do a presentation, and then we'll have dialogue with the members. On our panel this morning we have the Canadian Association of Importers and Exporters, we have Magna International Inc., we have the Toronto Regional Board of Trade, and we have the United Food and Commercial Workers Union of Canada.
We will start off with Ms. Nott for the Canadian Association of Importers and Exporters.