Thank you very much, Chair.
My first question will be for Ms. Barnes of the CFIA.
You're aware that the Agriculture Union appeared earlier during this committee meeting. Mr. Murphy made a clear request for some national standards.
You have also alluded to the fact that in terms of your employees and issues like personal protective equipment and so on, you were very reliant on individual public health units. I suppose this explains some of the lack of consistency in terms of some of the advice that was being given within each of...well, we'll say the meat packing plants or the processing plants.
Would you not find it preferable to have clearer national standards in terms of public health practice?
Just so you know, during this committee over the last many months, there has been a call for clearer national public health standards.
Could you speak to that a little bit? Certainly from the union perspective, this lack of consistency resulted in different outcomes in the plants themselves.
I'm sure, given your concern for your employees, that you would also be somewhat in favour of something clearer across the country.