Thank you for that question, Mr. Thompson.
This really brings up the point we were trying to make, that there is a need for a strategy for wildlife health in Canada. We have a partially developed strategy for aquatic animal health. We need a strategy for farmed animal health, and then we need an overarching strategy to see how they integrate.
If each area of interest develops its own strategy, and there is no communication between the areas, we cannot deal with the problem. If we're talking about national biosecurity, where there obviously is a relationship between farm poultry and migratory waterfowl, but the authorities are different—perhaps one is under fish and wildlife and the other is under agriculture—we need to make sure the linkages between the individual strategies are there. That's why we need this high-level, overarching animal health strategy that talks about all animals. Then, specifically within agriculture, we need a farmed animal strategy.
We also need to know how we relate to these other species and the other risks. Truly, it's the same as it relates to human health. We talk about humans as sort of non-animals, but in fact public health is also part of an overall strategy.