Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Thank you to the witnesses for appearing. A lot of you have appeared before.
I have a couple of quick questions.
Mr. Culbert, I remember two years ago you made a presentation. In fact, you did get a recommendation into our report. At the time, E. coli was really the news story of the year, so with the fact that you had come up with a vaccine, it made sense to ask for government support.
What has happened since then? You would think that it would be in the best interest of cattle producers to have vaccinated everybody by now. What's happened? Why hasn't that happened? Why do you need the government to force this upon somebody who earns his living through having healthy cattle?