I think it was in 2019 that I had the opportunity to go to the Okanagan and visit AAFC's Summerland Research and Development Centre. The scientists there were so very kind in giving us a tour and explaining a bit about the important work they were doing.
One of the shocking things I found out, though, was the number of novel pests and diseases we import every year. Could you inform the committee what kinds of trends we are seeing? Is the danger from novel pests coming into Canada increasing? How are you coordinating with other departments, both in detection and isolation, so that vast sectors of our agricultural economy are not affected in a negative way?