Thank you, Mr. Chair.
The federal laws are there when there is an issue of interprovincial or national or international jurisdiction that we need to look at in the context of trade.
When it comes to things within the province, especially in agriculture on the farm, it would be provincial jurisdiction, as you mentioned, and as I mentioned before.
Enacting these provisions in the Health of Animals Act would not supersede the provincial law. I am not a lawyer and I stand to be corrected, but the way it is written, the strength will not be there because we'll have to prove beyond doubt that somebody has committed an activity that caused the disease and breached biosecurity.
In that context I think it's better that the trespassing laws are there from the provincial perspective to protect those kinds of activities.
Thank you.