Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, Mr. Barlow, for bringing this bill forward.
I want to start with whistle-blowers. You mentioned that the opportunity for whistle-blowers is not being impinged upon by this bill at all, whistle-blowers who are family members or employees who are legitimately there. Would you not also agree, though, that there are other people, without that close a relationship to the owners, who visit farms in the course of their regular duties, such as veterinarians, fuel suppliers and feed suppliers, who are maybe not as close to the family from a vested interest point of view but who also follow proper biosecurity and have that same opportunity on the off chance there is abuse?