We're going to begin the second panel that we have this morning.
Welcome, panellists and stakeholders. If you were here earlier, you might have heard my opening remarks. Our committee has been going across the country and we've done six or seven provinces so far. We're finishing up Atlantic Canada and then we'll have a video conference with the territories. Over 20,000 emails have come to us from Canadians. We're going to be receiving emails until the end of October. We've had 125 briefings and 265 witnesses, so we're hearing a lot across Canada. We started early in the year.
The other issues that our trade committee is facing are softwood lumber and trade with the United States and we have a European agreement. Our committee is fairly busy. We have committee members from right across the country.
When we finish consulting with Canadians at the end of October, we're going to put a report together. That will take us a month or so, and at the end of the year, we're hoping to put a report in front of Parliament.
Welcome and thank you very much for coming here today and being part of this whole process.
In this group of panellists we have Connors Bros., the Council of Canadians, and Grand Manan Fishermen's Association.
We'll start with David Lomas from Connors Bros. Welcome, sir. You have the floor.