Thank you, Chair.
Thanks to the witnesses for being here today.
Mr. Rosser, we limit packaged bees coming in to Canada from Australia, Chile and New Zealand. Those three countries share a characteristic in that they are separated from other countries. Australia and New Zealand are naturally islands, and Chile has the Andes mountains.
I'm trying to understand the discrepancy as to why we restrict packaged bees to those countries, and probably I've outlined the answer. Why then do we also allow queens to come in from California and Hawaii? What is the main difference there?