Agriculture committee  As was mentioned before, we're working very closely with our U.S. counterpart, looking at what they're doing and what we are doing. They are moving ahead with the surveillance program. We are also looking at what our surveillance program in Canada is going to look like. As John m

Agriculture committee  I just want to highlight the collaboration and partnership among the various stakeholders, including industry, provinces, the federal government, CBSA and also the U.S. and others internationally. They are very willing to contribute work. We started working on this last July and

Agriculture committee  The OIE develops standards with the member countries. Canada is a very active participant in developing those standards. Zoning is one, and compartmentalization is another one. Once the standards are developed by the OIE, then it's up to the member countries to implement them an

Agriculture committee  Yes.

Agriculture committee  Europe is living this. We have seen examples of their being very co-operative. Then Japan is sitting in the middle of all this happening, with China, Vietnam, and now Hong Kong recently, and even Mongolia. It's spreading like fire. Japan is working very closely with us. They are

Agriculture committee  It is a coordinated effort. It's a very hardy virus, a DNA virus not like influenza. It's very difficult to produce a vaccine. There's a global alliance on research. It's called GARA. They work on it. Canada and the U.S. are part of it. We take a leadership role in pushing or le

Agriculture committee  That is a very good and quite a big question. Implementing animal health policies is my colleague Colleen's responsibility, but I'll speak to it and she can add. In deciding policies, we look at whether the disease is present in Canada. If it is present, we look at whose role it

Agriculture committee  Thank you. I'll actually continue from the answer I was trying to provide. When we know that like-minded countries are following those rules on zoning and have good veterinary oversight and we have confidence, we will draw up those agreements with them. We are doing one with the

Agriculture committee  We talked about biosecurity, Mr. Chair, but that part of biosecurity also includes producers making sure that the procurement is actually from sources that are known to them and that are actually part of a program, such as the FeedAssure program,. They then are very sure of the o

Agriculture committee  Thanks, Colleen. One of the things we need to keep in mind is that these agreements on zoning are bilateral, so they have to be both ways. If the country that we have an agreement with has a case of ASF, we need to accept that they will be zoning and we'll be accepting their pro

Agriculture committee  Thank you for the question, Mr. Finnigan. That is what we do. After the animals are gone, we follow the disinfection protocol established by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. Once that step is over, the farm will be empty for a certain period of time. After that period, the

Agriculture committee  Then we can begin the repopulation.

Agriculture committee  I think I will have to get back to you on this question.

Agriculture committee  Yes. We still have a little bit of work to do in terms of tracing all the animals in time, because we don't have a very effective traceability program for investigations.

Agriculture committee  I think the timeline has improved from the last time, because we found out after the fact that we had all these animals under quarantine. We were getting into the fall and animals were not going to market. Then we were looking at how to actually do the program. This time we have