Mr. Chair, I would like to ask the committee to consider requesting a briefing from Ag Canada and Health Canada on the crisis faced by our ranchers in southeast Alberta as a result of the report of the tuberculosis in one animal there. I don't want to politicize this and we're trying not to, but we have dozens of family farms where ranchers are going to be directly impacted by this. If we could hear from the ranchers as well as the departments, I think it would be good for us.
I'm not demanding that we do that right now, but I think we should consider doing that fairly quickly after the break if this issue continues, as it seems to now. Perhaps this is just to give the departments a heads-up that the committee might be asking them to come, so that they can do that on fairly short notice. I think it would be good for us, and it probably is our responsibility to ask for that as well.