We're going to get going here, folks. We're doing well this morning and moving on to our third panel.
Welcome, panellists. You know why you're here. Our committee has been travelling the country on the TPP agreement. We're hearing from Canadians. We're hearing from stakeholders, companies, corporations, unions, and employees. We have over 200 or 300 submissions, and over 20,000 individuals have sent us emails. We're getting a big uptake and we're going to be wrapping it up in the month of October. We're doing Atlantic Canada all this week and we'll have a few more submissions in October. We'll take any submissions from the public until the end of October. Then through November and December we'll put our report together and present it to Parliament at the end of the year.
Thank you for being part of this whole process. If you would keep your remarks to five minutes, we would appreciate it, so we can have lots of time for dialogue with the MPs afterward.
Without further ado, we'll start off with Leigh Sprague from the New Brunswick Union of Public and Private Employees.
Thanks for coming, Mr. Sprague. Go ahead, please.