Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to our colleagues across the aisle for allowing this fulsome discussion uninterrupted. I was really hoping we'd have time to have a full discussion today, and we're having that.
I want to explore the movement of Canadian intellectual property and the classification of the eggs that are going down to Panama. Just to put some context to it, I'm thinking of Semex in Guelph that ships bull semen. There's a classification of that as a food product versus as another type of product.
We had Ceva in Guelph that does antibiotics for chickens. They were bringing chickens in from the States for use on antibiotic development. It wasn't food product, but it's a chicken coming in, and they see a chicken as a food product. Semex ships semen. It's not a food product, but it's been classified as a food product, which limits their ability at the border sometimes. There are delays at the border.
I have a question about the classification of the eggs and the classification of our intellectual property that is not directly food product. With CFIA reporting into Health Canada and the work that we're doing with international trade, bridges are maybe not quite working there.
Are you aware of any of that or is there some kind of a correction? Are we applying a different standard for these eggs moving across than semen going around the world?