Finance committee  Potentially. When you're in a situation where you can't eradicate, we could move to this zoning. And that is well recognized internationally as a management approach that would only, then, have implications for the zone and not the rest of Canada.

Finance committee  Thank you, Chair. I'm Colleen Barnes, the executive director of domestic policy at CFIA. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak with members of the committee today. I am here to describe the proposed changes to the Health of Animals Act. Before I begin, I want to b

Finance committee  We do have humane transportation regulations, yes.

Finance committee  We do regulate that area.

Finance committee  No, not at all.

Finance committee  This one doesn't have a financial dollar figure attached to it because it's a new tool that the agency is going to have at its disposal. As I said, when we have a serious disease we try to eradicate. We have to go in there and take intensive samples. If it turns out that we can't

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, there are savings associated with this new tool. That's why it's in this piece of legislation. It's hard to quantify, because it will depend on the disease and the situation in the future.

Finance committee  We recognize that things are changing out there, for instance, with climate change, and the nature of disease is evolving. So we looked at situations, for example avian influenza, which we've had success in eradicating. If we hadn't been able to, the costs of managing that diseas