I was directly involved in setting up this trusted trucker pilot project. We're not arguing the science of whether the water were heated to 60°C and disinfectants were used and so on. The problem is this. The reality in the United States is that when a trucker arrives at a wash station, he hasn't a clue whether it's 60°C or 20°C, and whether he's using the right amount of disinfectant. Your truck is beside other trailers, and you have no idea what standard they've ordered.
I know anecdotally from talking to people in Des Moines, Iowa, that trucks roll in, do a firehose thing, blast the manure all over the place, and drive right out. At the same station we're taking trailers to supposedly get 60°C water and so on.
There's nobody in charge of this thing. It's left up to the washing industry in the United States to do this. This is not appropriate, guys. We need to do a better job at this. The only way of doing so is to have inspectors at wash stations in Canada, where we control the process and do this properly. That is the scientific approach.
We had CFIA and their officials come out last summer to visit our stations and so on to see what was going on. Our council is more than prepared to help manage this thing. We can put regulations in place governing these wash stations. But what we're saying is that it should not just be for Manitoba. We would like to see this as an option available to other provinces as well. Not just in Manitoba, but Ontario could do it if they wanted, or Quebec, or Saskatchewan, or Alberta.