Health committee  As far as I know, the U.S. does not require advanced reporting by conveyances travelling between Canada and Mexico.

Health committee  Yes. In fact, all countries of the World Health Organization that administer their International Health Regulations only require air and marine advanced reporting.

Health committee  I'm not familiar with what Mexico requires, but I assume it's consistent with the International Health Regulations.

Health committee  As one of the people who worked on the bill at the time, certainly I supported it. Once you got into figuring out how exactly we were going to implement this, that's where we discovered there was a problem.

Health committee  Let me tell you what it says in section 62, which is under the heading “ Regulations”: The Governor in Council may make regulations —and then there's a list of topics— ...(n) respecting anything that may be prescribed under this Act.... So it would take a regulation made

Health committee  No, there are currently no plans to draft regulations that would prescribe the different types, other than aircraft or watercraft conveyances, that would have to report in advance.

Health committee  That's right.

Health committee  They have never been covered, in fact, and they are not required to be covered under international health regulations, for the reasons we've talked about. I think there are pretty solid reasons to exclude them at the present time, but if in the future the risk environment changes

Health committee  Maybe I could answer that. A prescribed conveyance would be a conveyance that would be prescribed by the Governor in Council, through a regulation. If you look at section 62 of the Quarantine Act—and I'm not sure whether you have the actual Quarantine Act in front of you—

Health committee  Yes, I can try to answer that. It came out of the work that we undertook to figure out how we were going to implement the act. It was during that process that we discovered that this is not going to work in practice. We tried various ways to get around it, but none were feasible

Health committee  It's reduced from what Bill C-12 originally said. However, it is not reduced from the point of view of the existing regulations. The existing regulations, which have been in effect for probably fifty years, only required air and marine conveyances to report. Furthermore, as Dr. C