Agriculture committee  Up until this year, fields that were associated with a detection were considered restricted fields. All other fields were considered pest-free. To this day, I don't know why CFIA made a change in their protocol or their own plan this year so that they consider P.E.I. to no longer

Agriculture committee  You would have to be more specific about who in the U.S.

Agriculture committee  Most of the people we've talked to in the industry want our potatoes, which has kind of made this very hard for us to understand. In a lot of cases, in the early days they weren't even aware of it. Most of the pressure was coming from the National Potato Council, I believe, and d

Agriculture committee  Thank you for the question. Our estimates, which were communicated a few weeks ago and again in detail a week ago, are $60 million. Those are the needs of our producers.

Agriculture committee  That's not including the $28 million that was announced yesterday.

Agriculture committee  If I could add to that, Mr. MacDonald, we were pleased with the announcement that Fred Gorrell will be joining the effort. Today was our first working group meeting, and as Tom said, he did co-chair that meeting, and we hope that he'll take an active role in the discussions betwe

Agriculture committee  Just so I'm clear, are you referencing since this year's detections?

Agriculture committee  No, we were not.

Agriculture committee  On the last question you asked, Mr. Barlow, I just want to answer that we were were informed, as I said, of some of the wishes or interests or threats, I'll say, from the U.S., based on what they want. It wasn't discussed with us what those actions were that were put in place.

Agriculture committee  I'm sorry about that.

Agriculture committee  Yes. Our understanding today is that it is the destruction costs to remove the potatoes in the warehouses, put them in the field and put them through snow blowers, and that's a portion of the $28 million. It's $21 million.

Agriculture committee  I can't answer that, but what I am hearing from my producers is that if a producer has a year-end in July, for example, it will be this time next year before they'll know the impact of this situation on their financial situation. First and foremost, they want the border open. T

Agriculture committee  There would be many sources of mitigation in terms of preventing the spread of the disease in particular. Is that what you're referring to?

Agriculture committee  There would be biosecurity measures, which would be cleaning and disinfecting between fields. It's one of the best management practices—it would be one of the E1s—but there are also all kinds of observations. Eighty-seven per cent of our crop has crop insurance, and they take sam

Agriculture committee  Thank you.