Mr. Speaker, I believe the hon. gentleman's question is in relation to the disease known as BSE.
The key point which bears repeating is that there is absolutely no evidence that BSE exists in Canada and therefore it cannot enter the food chain.
Recently the World Health Organization has made certain recommendations to countries about what they might do with respect to BSE. I am pleased to note that the vast majority of those recommendations were introduced in Canada a long time ago, well before the fact and not after it.
The WHO's most recent recommendations are under discussion right now between my department and the relevant livestock organizations in this country.