First and foremost, we have implemented a national identification program. It's been in place since January 1, 2004, and we're evolving that program to incorporate animal movement and full-scale traceability. It's frustrating for us, when we sit around a table with other commodity groups and representatives indicating that traceability and animal identification will guarantee us market access, because it's not true. We still don't have market access and we have animal identification.
One of the biggest issues we have is scrapie. The U.S. has basically said to us, “If you, as a Canadian industry, are serious about eradicating scrapie, we will keep you in our sandbox, but if you're not, we're cutting you out.” We need to go and find the prevalence of scrapie in Canada, because we still don't have a prevalence rate. We need to establish that prevalence rate and then build an eradication plan around that prevalence rate so that we can target a date to become OIE-certified scrapie free. From our perspective and the feedback we're getting out of the USDA, that is our number one stumbling block in regaining access to the market. We need scrapie surveillance, we need scrapie prevalence, and we need scrapie eradication.