A general animal health strategy was designed by CFIA, and the farm animal health side of the business has been dealing with this, I would say, for a couple of years. The assistant deputy ministers--federal, provincial, territorial--have decided to pick it up and try to work with the industry to come up with better coordination faster. I think they played a key role in pushing for it. We have a draft of a national policy that is now being debated. I expect that within weeks we will have the final version of that strategy. Having a strategy is one thing, and implementing the strategy is going to be another thing, but we have to start somewhere.
On May 4th, 2009. See this statement in context.