Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to all the witnesses for joining us today.
I would like to start my questioning with the CFIA.
Again, I'm trying to get into the specifics on how you conduct your risk assessment. You're trusting a lot of the information you receive from an authorized veterinarian who can provide some assurance or where the bees are coming from or whether they are free from disease. Is there an acceptable level of disease? If you were to look at a package of bees coming in.... You said it could be in the neighbourhood of 8,000 to 12,000 bees. If one bee were to show the problem of having a mite or disease....
What are the percentages you're looking at, as an acceptable risk? I want you to walk the committee through some of the specifics of how you arrive at these conclusions.