Agriculture committee  It's about four years now.

Agriculture committee  I was, yes.

Agriculture committee  Where we have come out is that the protection is there in the Criminal Code of Canada. It has implications for the agency if we bring it in under our own statute.

Agriculture committee  Thanks, Mr. Chair. For this proposed amendment, we wouldn't be able to bring in a document where there is a direct conflict of interest. When we do the regulation that incorporates the document in the first instance, it will go through the full Treasury Board approval process,

Agriculture committee  When we use “incorporation by reference”, we use it when we have, for example, an international standard or practice or code that everyone agrees is how it should be done. Then the regulation will say that everyone has to follow that standard. Let's take, for example, a Codex s

Agriculture committee  Mr. Chair, the legislation does enable the inspectors to reach out to peace officers when they need to. There's nothing here that precludes that. The proposed amendment just says they “must provide”. So the proposed wording of the amendment doesn't get you the outcome because it

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. The issue that has been raised flags the concern the way subclause 10(3) is written. Exports and imports would all have to comply with the Canadian regime, and that's not the case. It's only if there are regulations in place that it operates. What we've do

Agriculture committee  Paragraph 51(1)(e) is the regulation-making authority around exports.

Agriculture committee  Page 22. Mr. Chair, in fact, we have built in that regulation-making possibility that the member flagged as a way to manage the issues around exports.

Agriculture committee  We can make regulations in paragraph 51(1)(e), but for subclauses 10(1), (2) and (3) to operate there would have to be regulations around exports. So there is no implication for exporters unless we make regulations.

Finance committee  We can zone now. But what this will allow us to do is that when we have an area that's declared under quarantine and we can't eradicate that disease, we can now put a control zone in place where we can manage the disease while we use science or other ways to effectively eradicate

Finance committee  That's right, Mr. Chair.

Finance committee  That's just one example. It's not designed for that disease in particular. It's for any disease where we find ourselves in a place where we can't eradicate.

Finance committee  No. This actually will help us. We then get this new zoning approach that, as the other member mentioned, is well recognized internationally as a management strategy, and it actually helps us keep our markets open.

Finance committee  It would be, based on science, in terms of our approach. So to that extent, yes.