Agriculture committee  The vast majority of the segment was input from industry, and I fully agree with your statement with regard to where the expertise and the knowledge sit. With regard to the input from the animal welfare or animal rights communities, we certainly received a lot of input. The tendency is, as I'm sure you well know, to send chain letters and repetitive statements, and we counted all of those as one input.

Agriculture committee  Mr. Chair and committee, in answer to your specific question about the transport times for horses entering Canada from the United States, slaughter horses actually are the only species of animal where regulations exist in the United States with regard to humane transportation. They carry a time limit of 28 hours without feed, water, and rest in transit.