Agriculture committee  What in particular? Do you mean the costs?

Agriculture committee  Absolutely.

Agriculture committee  We know that B.C. has very few hog farms. They raise mostly cattle and birds. Certainly, as it relates specifically to British Columbia, we believe that the proposed changes we have provided would have an excellent impact on increasing opportunities for more slaughterhouses, more

Agriculture committee  We've all talked about the percentages, but at the end of the day, we're still talking about 10 million animals that are not becoming part of our food supply chain, coast to coast, not just in British Columbia. I think it's important for the industry to focus on spending money to

Agriculture committee  Is that for me?

Agriculture committee  We've actually done an analysis of where Canada sits in comparison to every major country, including the OIE. That can be found in our documentation, in chart format. Unquestionably, we fall behind every other civilized country in terms of animal transportation. While we don't fa

Agriculture committee  It was.

Agriculture committee  It has not been removed. We did an investigation—

Agriculture committee  No.

Agriculture committee  We did an investigation at a facility that was—

Agriculture committee  I did not say that. I said that in the 11 facilities we went into, we saw abuse in every one of those cases.

Agriculture committee  I think there is—

Agriculture committee  We know that the most amount of suffering in transport is in birds. There was a study done in Canada by Schwartzkopf-Genswein in 2012 that indicated that 86% of cattle journeys are already less than eight hours, and that the majority of pigs already spend less than three hours in

Agriculture committee  I think we're talking about farmed animal transportation here.

Agriculture committee  If you're asking whether we have done undercover investigations in Canada, we have now done 11 undercover investigations coast to coast. In the 11 facilities that we have gone into undercover we have seen abuse in every one of those situations. That abuse has been made public thr