Thank you.
As has been indicated, this is an area where, when one adds climate change, globalization, invasive species, the reality of a number of different convergent factors, what is absolutely critical, and where CFIA knows and is currently making significant investments, is the recognition that we are not in isolation in this. So a lot of the intelligence-gathering around pest introductions and the ability of pests to propagate and survive in the Canadian context is information we're gathering collectively with our counterparts in Europe, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand, other parts of the world, who are also trying to find the best way to deal with this reality that is part of the global circumstance.
We're also working much more openly, I believe, with our provincial counterparts and with the academic sector. I think what's critical, in looking at some of the new technologies, is the recognition that with a number of these pests, the ability to identify them to their specific genus, species, and what not as they adapt to new environments as well requires us to do more than just take out a textbook and try to compare a bug to a textbook. So we're into looking at DNA, and DNA profiling from DNA gene banks, to identify these pests as quickly as possible. Again, working with other sectors and other science communities will help us get that information as quickly as possible and do a lot more in the area of forecasting and modelling, to know with changes in temperature and changes with wind patterns and other things which pests we're most vulnerable to, and then doing the economic assessments of what would that mean to the forestry sector, to the grain sector.
So that's how we're building that data information, which will underpin a risk-based approach, so that we can take decisions that we know can mitigate in those areas that will have the biggest consequence as our number one priority.