Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, and thank you to the witnesses for being here.
We're living in a very interesting time, given the uncertainty around NAFTA.
I really liked the comments about how we have to look at these for the chamber, modernizing these individual agreements—first-mover advantage, strategic advantages—and I was wondering if you could comment. The United States, for example, is a big market for us, but they're also becoming one of our big competitors. We look at the obvious—the resource sector, oil and gas—but of course in our agricultural community it's huge as well. The United States just went through and modified their entire tax structure. I was wondering if you could comment on the importance of us keeping in sync with the United States as far as the competitiveness side of things, and the importance of these agreements getting done fairly quickly so we can have that competitive advantage if we're losing on other ends. How important is it to get these done now, taking into account the American changes to their taxes?
Mr. Lavoie, is that going to be causing your producers challenges right now?