Natural Resources committee  Oak wilt is a pathogen that is on our radar, which is very close to Canada but has not quite been identified yet.

Natural Resources committee  But it could be very devastating as well, given the significant number of oak trees that are in our urban forest settings. Obviously the mountain pine beetle is of concern to Ontario and other provinces in the east.

Natural Resources committee  Yes. The emerald ash borer, for parts of Canada that don't yet have it, could be of significant concern as it continues to spread. Can you think of something else?

Natural Resources committee  Emergency response effectiveness is one of the top ways we could look at doing that, perhaps the development of a national framework that would engage all these partners and actually assign leads. We have done an exercise with emergency response, implementing the incident command

Natural Resources committee  Yes. Thank you very much, Chair, and good morning. I would like to thank the honourable members of the committee for inviting the Invasive Species Centre here to speak today. In 2011, the not-for-profit Invasive Species Centre, or ISC, was formed through a collaborative memora