Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Minister, my colleague Richard Cannings, whom I share this committee with, had a good meeting with the Deans Council for Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine. I understand from that meeting that they submitted a funding proposal for vaccine development to address the spread of zoonotic diseases, like H5N1, but that funding request was denied.
When it comes to this specific area, there's a lot of collaboration between you and Minister Holland because of the nature of how the CFIA works.
Given the fact that in British Columbia, a teenager became infected, this still poses a very grave risk to our entire poultry industry. As the minister responsible for agriculture, do you not think the decision to deny that funding to the Deans Council, which does incredible work, was short-sighted?