Thank you, Madam Chair, and thanks to our officials for joining us here today for this very important study.
I represent Brampton East, which is a large agri-food processing community that supports thousands of jobs in our city. It's encouraging to hear about the Indo-Pacific strategy and how the new agriculture and agri-food office that's opening up in Manila in the Philippines is going to help our Canadian businesses access new export markets around the world.
In addition, I heard about the national trade corridors fund, which is going to enable more trade to flow to supply chains, and the $5-million investment we made at the Peace Bridge, where we see 1.1 million trucks cross every year. We see investments to our cargo terminals and ports across Canada, so that's very encouraging to hear.
I want to know more about the emerging markets in the Indo-Pacific. We did hear at the very beginning about the impacts this could have on Canadian businesses.
Maybe I can hear from agriculture first.