Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to thank the officials who have stayed with us for the rest of the meeting.
I will start with Ms. Barnes.
Ms. Barnes, earlier you and Mr. Lehoux talked about reciprocity of standards and inspections. I'm very happy to hear you are doing more inspections on duck, because that has caused issues in the past.
I recently met with Chicken Farmers of Canada. They told me that they saw spent layer imports from the United States increase to 88 million kilos last year. According to them, anything more than 60 million kilos is almost certainly going to be imported illegally. They have developed and proposed a DNA test that would be easy to use and would not be very expensive to implement during the inspections that are already done at points of arrival.
Is the department working on that? Is the department open to implementing it? Have you ever considered it?