Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you all for coming today.
What is fascinating is not only the challenge of doing what you're doing but also anticipating the threats of the future. My mind goes to The Andromeda Strain, or more poetically, to Yeats's comment:
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
The first part of my question is this. How do you look toward the future, particularly with exponential increases in globalization and changes in weather patterns? What are you doing to try to anticipate the little beasties before they get here?
Secondly, how do you work with your provincial counterparts to ensure some effective way of anticipating these threats?
Then I'll go to a third question. To what extent do your measures sometimes wrongfully impede the imports of products? Do you find you get objections from your importers that you ultimately have to concede are valid?