Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Minister, welcome to the committee. It's a pleasure to have you here.
I really appreciated all your comments delivered in all earnestness about how we're going to pay attention to our trade relationship going forward, but we watched in dismay while we saw a release this week that said all the important matters that were raised with the U.S. administration this week regarding how we're going to work hand in hand with the new U.S. administration.... We also had a CUSMA negotiation happen not so long ago. This industry, again, was left out of that whole negotiation.
As my colleague Mr. Cannings was saying, at what point in time will we actually come to a real agreement here and this government will actually put forward the steps required to come to a solid agreement that will last with the United States in this industry?