Welcome, everybody.
This is meeting number 115 of the Standing Committee on International Trade.
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Following Mr. Seeback's departure from our committee, which we're very sad about, because we were working well together, now we have someone else who I am sure will be equally as competent and great to get along with.
We need to fix the issue of the vice-chair for the official opposition. Before I go on to the witnesses' statements, I'd like to call on the clerk to preside over the election of the vice-chair.