Agriculture committee  For your information, the PigTrace program is actually in our office in Winnipeg. There are two staff members associated with the program. One of them is seconded from our staff to manage this. It's a national program. The data is housed nationally through the ATQ system out of Q

Agriculture committee  There is a difference between pork and live pigs. The pork products are governed by CFIA and all the regulations. We import a significant amount of pork from the United States as well, and there are long-standing trade agreements on that. All our live animals in Canada have to

Agriculture committee  Our council has always supported the formation of the proposed agency. If we had it in place, it would have provided some funds for us to come up with some innovative ways to improve our security, for example, through the research component of it. It will also provide some assura

Agriculture committee  We're having discussions with the provincial government right now to look at how the BRM programs or a suite of programs could fit in. The challenge we're facing is that these programs affect all of agriculture. When you make changes in AgriStability, you also affect how it would

Agriculture committee  I think one of the issues that we're facing is that.... In psychology, they call it cognitive dissonance. This is such a huge issue that people are having a hard time getting their heads around it. The disease has been around a long time, and it's in China and so on. What's happe

Agriculture committee  This is a good business for Canada. We're very good at producing pork. We export across the world, and we should play to our strength on this thing. We have a big threat of ASF, but if we were to get a case on a farm, I think we could contain it. We could manage it with our moder

Agriculture committee  Good morning. Thank you for giving Manitoba Pork Council the opportunity to share some views on the challenges presented by African swine fever to the pork sector in Manitoba. You’ll have already heard from industry experts, including the Canadian Pork Council, on the national pe

Agriculture committee  To us, the issue is that the U.S. wash stations are not regulated. We have no real idea as to whether they can provide the proper—

Agriculture committee  What we would like to do is have these trailers sealed at the border, so that when the come back they're not washed and cleaned in the United States, but washed and cleaned in Canada at certified wash stations that we inspect with veterinarians.

Agriculture committee  We are in the process of writing a regulation to control that, and it would be the closest wash station to the point of entry. There will be minimum hours and stuff like this. They have to be there. They must only go there, not to any farms and so. There will be severe penalties

Agriculture committee  We've had numerous discussions with CFIA, and we will continue to have numerous discussions with CFIA until we can come up with some way of trying to resolve this matter. I should point out that the trailers visibly look clean. That doesn't mean they've done a swab and checked f

Agriculture committee  Well, things are changing. The big operations in the United States realize that you can control this—they see what Manitoba and Canada have done—so they're starting to build their own wash stations and their own systems. However, we're talking about operations that have 220,000 s

Agriculture committee  I was directly involved in setting up this trusted trucker pilot project. We're not arguing the science of whether the water were heated to 60°C and disinfectants were used and so on. The problem is this. The reality in the United States is that when a trucker arrives at a wash s

Agriculture committee  What we did was the trailers, and this only applies to trailers that go to farms in the United States. Trailers that go to slaughtering plants only have to be scraped. They don't have to be cleaned and disinfected, but it has to be a good scraping job. Most commercial operations

Agriculture committee  Maple Leaf also runs farms in Manitoba, so it is a major player in the industry. They sit on our board of directors, and we consult all the time. It's an integrated industry. We meet as an industry. You'll hear from HyLife today about how they are trying to get on top of this dis