Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. While I have the opportunity, I want to thank my colleagues for all the well-thought-out potential amendments and for putting some work into this. It is certainly appreciated. As in the previous Parliament, we will not support amendment NDP-1. The reason is that we specifically chose that language to not include farm workers, farm family and those who have permission to be on farm.

Agriculture committee  Go ahead, Mr. Carr.

Agriculture committee  Thanks, Mr. Carr. I know Mr. MacGregor doesn't have any questions. Mr. Perron, do you have a quick one that will fit in? Go ahead, please.

Agriculture committee  Thank you for your response, Mr. Gobeil. Thank you, colleagues. There are couple of reminders before we head out. The amendments for Bill C-275 need to be in by the end of the day on October 11. Keep that in mind. We'll be doing clause-by-clause study on Monday, October 16.

Agriculture committee  Thank you. We'll now go to Ms. Taylor Roy for three minutes, please.

Agriculture committee  You have 10 seconds left, so if you want her to answer, you'd better let her.

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Roy. Thanks, Mr. MacGregor, for your questions. We're almost out of time, but I do want to try to get in a second round. Probably only the Conservatives and the Liberals will get maybe three minutes each, and then we'll go to the Bloc and the NDP for perhaps one question.

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Roy. Your time is up. Thank you, Mr. Perron. Mr. MacGregor, you have six minutes, please.

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Doctor. We appreciate it. Thank you, Mr. MacDonald, for your questions. Mr. Perron, you have the floor for six minutes.

Agriculture committee  I'm sorry, Mr. Gobeil; that's the time. Maybe you'll have a chance to add to that in the next round. Now we'll switch to Mr. MacDonald for six minutes, please.

Agriculture committee  I understand where you're coming from, but we appreciate your doing it.

Agriculture committee  Mr. Binnendyk, I'm going to have to cut you off there. I gave you a bit of extra time, but I'm sure you'll have some opportunities during the questions from our members. I'm sure we all have days when this isn't our favourite place to be either.

Agriculture committee  We're going to start with the first round of questioning. We will go to Monsieur Lehoux You have six minutes.

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Doctor. We appreciate that. Now, colleagues, we do have Mr. Binnendyk, who now has sound that is okay. We have about a minute and a half left. Are you okay if we let Mr. Binnendyk give his testimony to wrap up for the Pork Council?

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Gobeil. I'm sorry. You're past time. We'll try to get some more information during the questions. Now we will go to Dr. Rastogi for five minutes, please.