Good morning, everyone, on this wintry Ottawa morning. Welcome.
Today we're continuing our study dealing with the Canada and Pacific Alliance future agreement. Of course, as everybody knows, there are four countries involved with this: potentially Canada, Mexico, Colombia, Peru, and Chile. That's five.
On that note, this is our second meeting and this is our second panel of witnesses. I welcome you to our committee. For anybody who's not familiar with how we do this, we'd like you to do your briefing in five minutes or less, which would be appreciated. Then we could have lots of time for dialogue.
We have three panellists this morning for our first round, and we'll have three on the second round. Through video, we have Mr. Mark Wessel, vice-president of international business development.
Good morning, sir. If you don't mind, do you want to start us off this morning?