Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome back to Ottawa. As everybody around this table knows, we had a change of plans. We were hoping to be in Mexico this morning, but due to the major difficulties down there, we switched channels. Out of a disaster, we have a great opportunity, and that is we have with us today the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Many of you around the table here, and many MPs have had a chance to travel to the United States the last few months, and we found the chamber always welcoming, Mr. Murphy. We had a great evening with the chamber in Washington. We also had a great experience in California with your chamber. We had a luncheon with them. Thank you very much for coming to our committee.
You have a very distinguished group that has come to Ottawa with you. There are over 37 members from many of the big companies and producers in the United States. This is a very important time, as you know, for our countries, and especially these next few days, so it's great to see everyone here.
There are a few things we probably run a little differently than committees in the United States. First of all, there are no pictures allowed to be taken now that we're in a formal setting.
We're going to split this up. We're going to do something a little different, Mr. Murphy. We're going to have you make a presentation, of course. Presentations are usually around five minutes, but you can take whatever amount of time you need. Then we'll have dialogue with the members of Parliament.
We're going to do that for about an hour, and then we'll have a more informal meeting. Again, there will be no cameras. Anytime during this first hour, if you have some members who want to sit in, they're welcome to sit with you. You can ask them to come up to the table now. If there's a particular question, let's say about milk or something, and you have somebody you want to bring to the table, let them come forward. There's no structure. You can bring anybody to the table to help you answer questions or give us some information.
As you know, our country is bilingual, so anybody who needs translation, there are headphones. There are three channels. English is one, and the second is French.
Without further ado, you have the floor, sir, and then we'll open it up for dialogue with the MPs.