Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome, especially the new panellists who we have. This is our final panel for the day.
As many of you are aware, we are studying the TPP, and we're consulting with Canadians.
Our committee is very busy. We're finishing up on the European agreement and we're dealing with many U.S. issues—softwood lumber and agricultural products—but the TPP has been our main focus over the last few months. We've visited seven provinces and we have a couple of provinces left on our Atlantic tour. We've consulted with the territories through video.
We have had more than 125 briefs, 200 witnesses and 20,000 emails. We're one of the first committees in the House of Commons that has opened up to the public for their input, so we have received more than 20,000 emails. We also have an open-mike session at the end for anybody in the general public who wants to give comments. That has been going quite well.
We still have a few meetings back in Ottawa, and we're probably going to be wrapping up at the end of October. Then we have to bring it all together and do a report, which takes at least a month or so, and then we will present it to the House of Commons at the end of the year.
Yes, it's a big deal, as many of you know. It deals with 12 countries, 40% of the world's GDP, and 800 million people. We're hearing everything as we go across the country. We're hearing pros and cons, and some people want things changed in it. Of course we have a watchful eye on what's happening down south. The TPP was brought up last night in the debate between the two presidential candidates. Often what happens down there also has an impact on how we end up doing things up here.
Without further ado, we have the P.E.I. Cattle Producers, the P.E.I. Health Coalition, and the Sierra Club.
The Cattle Producers will go first. We have Brian Morrison and Rinnie Bradley.
If you could speak for around five minutes we'd appreciate it so that we can have time for dialogue with the MPs. If you go over five minutes, I'm going to ask you to wrap it up.
Go ahead, folks.