Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I will be brief. I will just give my background and will be happy to answer questions, which I assume will be directed from the biosecurity and infection control standpoints.
By way of background, I'm a veterinarian internal medicine specialist who focuses solely on infectious diseases. I'm a professor at the Ontario Veterinary College at the University of Guelph. I direct the University of Guelph Centre for Public Health and Zoonoses and I'm chief of infection control at the Ontario Veterinary College Health Sciences Centre, our teaching hospital.
I worked nationally and internationally with various groups on infectious diseases, infection control, and biosecurity, aiming to optimize animal health and, by way of optimizing animal health, human health. I have participated in numerous biosecurity and guideline development ventures. Overall, my work involves a range of infectious disease topics but focuses on matters that would potentially relate to this bill in terms of emerging disease, antimicrobial resistance and diseases at the human-animal interface, as well as broader topics of infection control and biosecurity.
With that, I will be brief. I will be happy to answer any questions you have on this area pertaining to this bill.