I think Kevin is being a little humble, or his memory is slipping.
He's been to Chile and has imported Chilean queens into Canada. One of their goals was to ship Canadian stock to Chile so they could breed it there and ship it back to Canada. Their season would let them do that in March and April, when you can't do it in this area. Because Canada hasn't defined a national bee health status, Chile refused to accept Canadian bee stock.
One thing that Alberta, Manitoba, and the CFIA are going to move ahead with is a national bee survey that will be acceptable and recognized in international circles, so we can move our genetics more easily around the world.