There was compensation paid to the farmers at that time, but out of those 8,000 animals there were about 120 animals that were infected with CWD. We approached them to slaughter the animals, test the animals, and sell the meat or start a meat market for us so that we could have a place where we could get rid of our animals if this disease happened again on another farm. But that was never undertaken.
To this date, basically their means of testing is to slaughter all the animals, and nothing else is done. It's just eradicate, and then you go ahead and keep feeding and try to survive without any means of promoting the market. They won't give you a clean bill of health. Actually I've been in the elk industry since 1989. We've had no disease on our farm. I approached CFIA to give us a clean bill of health. They will give you a letter stating that yes, this farm is clean of disease at this time, but never anything more to endorse that you've been a clean farm for 12 to 15 years and no disease on your farm.