Agriculture committee  For the hog industry, I want to make sure that everybody understands how major a risk biosecurity is for us. For anybody here who doesn't know, there was the PED virus outbreak in the U.S. in 2014, where they managed to kill some 7 million baby pigs. This bug is so virulent that

Agriculture committee  My understanding is that the U of S study is quite exhaustive. I think they're talking about a two-year period to actually complete the whole process. If I were picking a time, I would say two years is what they're working on. They might have things to talk about before. A person

Agriculture committee  We had an issue with the microphone for the first part of your question, but if the question is directed towards why we would be following European standards, for example, I guess my answer would be that I don't know why we would be. My understanding is that some of those standar

Agriculture committee  Thank you. Good morning. My name is Frank Novak. I'm a producer from Alberta and first vice-chair of the Canadian Pork Council's board of directors. I'm joined today by Gary Stordy, who is our manager of government public relations. I want to first thank the House of Commons St