Thanks very much, Minister, for being here today, and congratulations on your appointment. I look forward to working with you.
One of the questions came up earlier regarding the amount of time this has taken to get put into legislation and come before our committee. I know that, in your opening remarks, you mentioned the level of consultations that took place with a number of stakeholders. I'm wondering if you can elaborate on that and the fact that it took some time to hear from stakeholders to come up with legislation that would have their confidence.
I know you mentioned the Canadian Federation of Agriculture and a number of others. I'm wondering if you can just go through the process of the consultations, which took some time to get their input.