Welcome, sir, and welcome to everybody else who just came in.
This is the last of our panel and we'll continue now with our study on TPP. We've done most of the provinces and dealt with the territories, and we've had a lot of submissions from individuals. It is over 20,000 emails now, almost 300 witnesses, and 130 briefs. It's a big undertaking and we'll be doing this until the end of October, then we'll put a report together and present it to Parliament.
As you're well aware, Mr. Taylor, it's a big agreement. It's 40% of the GDP, it's 12 countries, and 800 million people. I think it's one of those agreements that one way or another is going to affect all Canadians, some maybe more positive than others, but our job is to listen to Canadians. We'll have an open-mike session after this. I think with all the goings-on in the United States, trade has become more of a topic now than it ever was before.
Without further ado, sir, you have five minutes. If you can keep it around that, we'd appreciate it. Then we'll open with dialogue from the MPs.
Go ahead.