Thank you, Madam Chair.
I would like to thank all the witnesses, not only for your appearance today, but because you are very much also on the front lines of this pandemic in supporting our business community. I know how important your work is in order to help see our Canadian companies and our entrepreneurs through to the other side, so thank you for that.
Let me begin with Mr. Kennedy, perhaps, as well as Mr. Agnew. There has been some discussion over the course of this committee meeting regarding consultations. I just wanted to check in with both of you to make sure that it was very clear. We are on the record as a government in saying that our objective with a short-term transitional agreement is to roll over the provisions of CETA.
Do you feel that the business community understands that objective and that what we are looking for is to create that stability through a transitional rollover?