Mr. Speaker, I thank the Minister of Agriculture for taking some time to respond to questions. I too will be brief with mine.
We know that British Columbia is not the only place in North America that has had avian flu this spring. Certainly Delaware and Texas have had it. As I look at this, it strikes me that we are killing, depopulating, way more birds than are being depopulated there. It seem to me that it has been contained much faster in those two states. Is it because it is a different strain of avian flu? Is it because the USDA and the Texas agricultural officials have acted more quickly?
The final question is, when this is all over, will we have something like an international panel on BSE that will come and look at what we did right and wrong on this issue?