Mr. Speaker, officials in Ontario have confirmed a second case of PED, the pig virus.
The virus turned up in a swab test in Quebec. This is alarming for hog farmers. If nothing is done, this epidemic could cost the Canadian pork industry millions of dollars.
The Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food is failing to step up and deal with the problem. I have a simple question for the minister. What is the minister going to do to help stop this from becoming a disaster for a pork industry that has seen troubled times far too often over the last five years?