Thanks very much, Mr. Chair.
I appreciate what my colleague Mr. Carr is trying to accomplish. I guess my concern is that it goes far beyond what we are trying to accomplish. We are trying to keep this very simple and focus on one aspect of the Health of Animals Act.
I appreciate your point here. If this is something we want to do later on as part of this study, and if Mr. Lehoux has put a framework around specifics on biosecurity, which, as Ms. Ireland said, are not mandatory but in many cases voluntary.... It depends on which industry you're in. They're all different, but they have their biosecurity protocols there. Maybe there's a way we can do this with another piece of legislation, but I think this expands too far on what we're trying to do.
The other issue is that some of the wording in here takes away the scope of what we were trying to accomplish. We wanted to include transportation and processing plants. In this you're very specific that it's only on farms. That also kind of changes it in that first line.
The third issue is that I believe we can find some consensus with NDP-2 and G-2. If we pass this as is, that eliminates that opportunity.
Again, I appreciate what you're raising here. I think there are opportunities for us in the future to focus on some of these other aspects in terms of the CFIA and the role with mandatory biosecurity protocols, if that's what the minister wants to do, but I would be unable to support such a massive change to what we're trying to accomplish here.