Good morning again. Welcome, everybody, on this cold Ottawa February morning.
Welcome to the Standing Committee on International Trade. My name is Mark Eyking, the chair. We have three parties on our committee: Liberals, Conservatives, and NDP.
We are very fortunate to have the ambassadors and their supporting staff from four countries here with us here this morning.
As everybody knows, we're doing a study of Canada and the Pacific Alliance countries, and the future trade agreement. This is probably our third or fourth meeting and today we're looking forward to hearing from the ambassadors.
We usually only have five minutes for each presentation, but we're not going to be strict on that. We're going to allow the ambassadors or their support to say whatever they want and to be up front and clear in whatever they want to say. Then we'll just have dialogue with the MPs and we'll do one round.
Mr. Marisio, go ahead, sir. You have the floor.