I call the meeting to order.
This is meeting number 36 of the Standing Committee on International Trade.
This meeting is being held pursuant to the order of reference of January 25, 2021, and the order of reference sent to the committee on March 10, 2021.
The committee is resuming its study of Bill C-216, an act to amend the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Act with regard to supply management.
Today we have the pleasure to welcome officials from the Department of Agriculture and Agri-Food and from Global Affairs Canada.
From the Department of Agriculture and Agri-Food, we have Marie-Noëlle Desrochers, acting executive director, strategic trade policy division, and Aaron Fowler, chief agriculture negotiator and director general, trade agreements and negotiations.
From the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development, we have Doug Forsyth, director general, market access, and Kevin Thompson, executive director, market access and trade remedies law.
You are people who have been before the committee many times, so you're familiar faces to us.
Mr. Forsyth, you have the floor, please.