Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
To all of our witnesses, thank you.
Mr. Johnston, I am from central Alberta. Certainly I am well aware of some of the concerns and issues having to do with bovine TB and before that, BSE. We had a situation where people's livelihoods were being affected and, as you mentioned, generational blood lines of cattle were being destroyed.
Could you talk about the relationship between the producers and the effects when all of these well-intentioned actions are taken by a government?