Agriculture committee  Yes. We talked about how important pork production is to the Canadian economy. It's worth $24 billion. Producers tell us they could do all kinds of things if the government just gave them the proceeds of the supply management program. In other words, we're not asking for a lot o

Agriculture committee  I'll be brief. I'm a producer. I register all the hogs I ship. Every time a hog changes hands between two producers or is sent for slaughter, there's a system that keeps track of where my hogs go. I tattoo or label the hogs so they can be traced from my farm to another farm and a

Agriculture committee  It's partly done by hand, and then we enter the data into a system. With platform 2.0, which we need funding for, we'll be able to do it instantaneously with off-the-shelf tools. We can use a cell phone to transfer the information. Imagine some kind of health crisis cropping up a

Agriculture committee  The data is entered by hand, so it's not realistic to expect it to be entered into the computer right away. Platform 2.0 would enable us to do that instantly. We also need to improve zoning. We have all the information, but if there's a crisis—fingers crossed that doesn't happen

Agriculture committee  It's a dual reporting system. It works both ways. Renderers are included in the traceability system. Dead animals are traced too.

Agriculture committee  Exactly. You know about a few of China's quirks. This is one of them.

Agriculture committee  No, not to cows or any other animals.

Agriculture committee  I'm not a veterinarian, but in a nutshell, this disease kills. When a herd is contaminated, all the pigs die. It's a haemorrhagic disease. The animals suffer internal bleeding and die. This disease doesn't spread rapidly, but once contamination happens, it's fatal.

Agriculture committee  There's no treatment. Work is under way to develop a vaccine, but I wouldn't expect to become available in the short term.

Agriculture committee  I'll say a couple of words on the wild pigs.

Agriculture committee  It's really complicated because of the intricate link between municipal laws, provincial laws and federal laws. It's really complicated to have a discussion at all levels when it's time to manage this kind of problem.

Agriculture committee  Yes, but I'm not just a pig farmer. I also raise dairy cows and produce maple syrup. It's a medium-sized mixed family farm.

Agriculture committee  It's a farrow-to-finish operation. I have 120 sows that I raise from birth to slaughter.

Agriculture committee  Yes.

Agriculture committee  Earlier I talked about the four cornerstones, namely prevention, preparedness, response and, if necessary, recovery. We discussed those four cornerstones at the forum. There was a discussion involving stakeholders from around the world. Some of them had animals that had been affe