Thank you, Mr. Chair.
In reference to the graphs, I would be very interested in getting copies of those.
Dr. Sheppard, thank you for being in front of the committee and providing your comments.
One of the handouts, in the background information, says this with regard to Slice:
From a strictly medical perspective, the drug protects the fish from lice for a short period. If medicated fish are exposed to unmedicated lice a second time (from various marine sources), those lice may re-infest the recently medicated fish. This situation, as it recently occurred in the Nootka area, is not evidence of drug resistance even though some may interpret it that way.
I have a couple of questions on that. One, I'm wondering if you could describe what drug resistance looks like. This is not drug resistance, in your opinion. What does drug resistance look like?
Second, why are some saying that this is, in their opinion, evidence of a case of resistance to Slice?