The first case of PED in Canada in swine form was confirmed by the CFIA on January 24, 2014. It is now June 15, 2017.
In your presentation, you alluded to what may be a lack of collaboration and transparency at the CFIA, and the fact that the federal government may not have been as engaged as it should be. When CFIA was before us in the first panel, I asked about PED being a disease that is monitored federally, and Mr. Kochhar spoke about the OIE, the World Organisation for Animal Health.
Could you talk about the importance of federal leadership in this? Right now, we're talking about Manitoba, but it was in Ontario, and it has been in Quebec. I think there needs to be more federal leadership. I know that the minister spoke out yesterday and said that he was going to work with CFIA and that more would be done and more talk. I was just wondering if you could elaborate a bit more on what you experienced in Ontario and what you're seeing right now.