Agriculture committee  I'll take that for my colleague Dr. Ireland. The standards and requirements are the same. They're laid out in legislation. Our veterinarians apply them every day. They speak to stocking density. They speak to the conditions of the animals in transport. To a question from earlier, whether individual exporters are exceeding those or not because they're simply not moving as many animals, that is certainly a possibility.

Agriculture committee  I would come back to the existing legislation that allows permitted activities. Our veterinarians are there to monitor that every day, as my colleague has said. Our veterinarians are there on the farm when the loads are prepared. They're there at the airport when the trucks arrive for the crating of the animals, up to the final loading of the aircraft.

Agriculture committee  It is our expectation that those incidents are reported to us. The commercial shipments that go by air are accompanied by a member of the industry who has care and control of the horses, so they're certainly there to monitor the condition of the horses. As Dr. Ireland has said, it is a very multistaff, complex activity where CFIA interacts routinely with industry and the people who are involved in this.

Agriculture committee  It's a legislative requirement for them to report—

Agriculture committee  The legislation certainly covers the entire journey and sets the feed, water and rest interval at 28 hours. It sets a reporting requirement on the industries involved, as we've said, regardless of end use. That's currently our legislative requirement, and we would expect industry to comply with that.

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Dr. Ireland and Mr. Chair. The CFIA's activities are in line with a suite of regulations and policies that regulate the animal industry as a whole. The majority of those activities happen downstream from the farms. As Dr. Ireland has said, on-farm biosecurity is really the responsibility of farmers, their associations and the provincial bodies that essentially provide a suite of best practices and farm regimes—

Agriculture committee  There's no regulatory regime to do on-farm inspections of biosecurity.

Agriculture committee  Well, I think, as Dr. Ireland said, that's really a shared responsibility across the sector. CFIA's role is to respond to acts and regulations put forward by Parliament, and a change in regulation would certainly change the nature of our activities.