Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, witnesses, for being here today.
I'm going to talk a little bit about CFIA, the provincial and federal plants, and the coordination that you think is required there. I think that is something we can take a look at.
Ms. Patterson, I think one thing you were speaking of was primarily the different types of structures you have for an abattoir that's going to deal with sheep and lamb versus what you would have for cattle and others. Again, you're saying you have to transfer them. You only have a few in certain provinces, so you have to worry about the transportation, and then if you have to deal with transportation, you then have to deal with all the different rules that provinces have when you go from one province to another. Of course, they exist for beef and so on, but you're not as likely to see that occur, although it does occur.
I'm just wondering if you can speak a little bit about how that is working and where you see being able to bring in a federal level of inspection. There's going to be a lot greater cost associated with the small abattoirs that are dealing with this to try to bring in federal inspection for the number of animals you're running through there. I'm just wondering how you can take a look at that.
Then, Mr. Bonnett, one thing you mentioned was standardization of farm data. I just wonder if you could expand on that.
Corlena.