Agriculture committee  We need to get this resolved, and as fast as we can. Every day and every week that it moves on just makes the anxiety worse. Our lives aren't eight to five for five days a week, and then we start again on Monday; this stuff goes on every day. We need a resolution as soon as possi

Agriculture committee  On the compensation aspect, we don't want a handout. We don't want free money. I want you guys to understand that. We don't want anything that we don't deserve. As Ross said earlier, this is brought on.... I want to back up. I get this. This is important for our industry. This

Agriculture committee  You don't belong to AgriStability.

Agriculture committee  Yes, we're a 100-year-old ranch, and most of the ranches in our community are close to a century old. It's taken that long to build up these businesses. It's not as simple as just going to the store and buying a new one. It doesn't work that way.

Agriculture committee  Yes. In my experience with CFIA, this problem we have is much bigger than what the process and the body can handle. They're used to possibly a milk barn or a dairy farm, a chicken barn. We have tens of thousands of head of cattle over hundreds of thousands of acres, and they don'

Agriculture committee  I have spoken with our MPs over the course of this investigation, but there's been nothing in the last few days prior to this.

Agriculture committee  Not directly, sir.

Agriculture committee  That's right.

Agriculture committee  That's to feed a third of my herd for a month.

Agriculture committee  Right now, to make this a better situation, we need the ability to move some of these cattle that are quarantined—the calves are the ones that should be moved—to a facility, to a feedlot, that's set up to take care of these animals and take them off our hands. It's an animal welf

Agriculture committee  No, none whatsoever.

Agriculture committee  Absolutely. We have very qualified vets at our disposal who could help if the CFIA would let them.

Agriculture committee  Absolutely. There's very little flow of information. I'm the index herd; I'm the first guy who was involved, and I know very little about what's happening with my business or just the flow of....

Agriculture committee  I have 1,200.

Agriculture committee  I have 1,200 head of cows, yes.