Yes, sure. The incubation that occurred out here was rather sudden, and in the interest of mental health, we were asked to come in and provide crisis support. I attended evening meetings and town hall meetings and offered individual support out there. The effect on the community and on individuals and families was just devastating. Their actual livelihood was threatened. A lot of the process of rolling this out was, I think, quite new to the CFIA with respect to the scope of it. It was commented that maybe they thought they were going out to Old MacDonald's Farm—400 acres and a few head—when it was really many thousands of acres and head that had to be contained. A lot of questions weren't answered readily, so there was a lot of significant stress. I can say there were individuals who were receiving services for the families, with the stress of that as well.
I would just end off by saying that I am optimistic, as I mentioned. There was a lot of discussion going on after I presented at the veterinarians conference, a lot of verbatim from the ranchers' mouths on what the experience was like for them. It's been further analyzed and there are some further themes to do with communication and competency and compassion as well as other things required to build a people factor into any future investigations that might have major impacts.
We're certainly working, from a health services perspective, to get in on supports earlier. I think this is an inter-ministerial type of thing that probably should be considered across the board when there are large-scale events happening where the supports are actually called in at the onset and are accessible immediately at the place where things are happening.