Agriculture committee  Thank you, André. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, honourable member, for the question. With respect to the fifth case, which was detected through our domestic surveillance program earlier this year, the comprehensive epidemiological report of the animal traceouts and the

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Good afternoon, honourable members and ladies and gentlemen. I appreciate the opportunity to appear before and support the work of the committee. My name is Dr. Brian Evans. I am Canada's chief veterinary officer, and I work with the Canadian F

Agriculture committee  Thank you, honourable member, for the question. I'll maybe ask my colleague from AAFC to add perspective as well. I think if people reflect back, those with some longer history would recall that the 1997 feed ban was not an exercise in simplicity in itself. Reference has been ma

Agriculture committee  It's “promulgated”.

Agriculture committee  Certainly. I would ask if you would lend me the opportunity to ask Susie Miller, from the department, who has been managing the funding arrangements with the provinces, because the funding is through AAFC; it's not through CFIA. Susie, would you be prepared to speak to that?

Agriculture committee  Thank you for the question. I guess my perspective on that, honourable member, is that, as have you--and I'm sure most other members around the table--I've heard, over the last four years now, the pain of individual producers, with what this has done to them and what it continue

Agriculture committee  On the economic issue of allocation, Allan may want to make reference to his allocation in Manitoba. I know Sue could speak to the allocations on a province-by-province basis so there is clarity around what those numbers are.

Agriculture committee  I'll seek assistance from others involved in that type of programming. Mr. Chair, in responding to that, I would just come back to the important fact that with the smaller facilities, of course, in preparing the legislation, in addition to the 12-month window from last June unt

Agriculture committee  Thank you, honourable member. Certainly, from my perspective, in terms of the design of the regulation and its ability to achieve the outcomes necessary to sustain public confidence in our food supply domestically and with our international trading partners, and in terms of our

Agriculture committee  I would only again pick up, as the honourable member has indicated, that given the nature of this file, the regulatory lead is ours. I think it's fair to state that I have every understanding and belief that there is planning, as was indicated in our opening comments, that this i

Agriculture committee  Thank you for the clarification of the point raised, Mr. Chair. I appreciate that. I would ask if Freeman Libby, who has been involved with the discussions with industry and provinces across the country in implementing this, could speak to the issues of implementation and strate

Agriculture committee  Thank you, honourable member, for the question. As I indicated earlier, I don't think anybody should underestimate that the challenges encountered in 1997 with the initial feed ban are any less than the challenges we're facing today. The 1997 feed ban was in fact brought in agai

Agriculture committee  If I could, very briefly, honourable member, at the end of the day we will have equivalent measures across the country. As I indicated, the preparation of this particular regulation was based on taking into account flexibilities that would exist based on existing infrastructure,

Agriculture committee  I'll just make an opening statement and certainly allow others around the table in the provincial jurisdictions who have provincial abattoirs outside a federal establishment registration.... Certainly. from a federal perspective, one of the initiatives that we continue to invest

Agriculture committee  That's exactly what we're working toward at this point, honourable member, yes. Obviously there are still short-term pressures, but hopefully as those standards become standard, that will provide additional opportunities for some of the smaller abattoir operators in the longer