Agriculture committee  Biosecurity on an animal farm is very important. As I said, biosecurity is a responsibility that is shared. We support the development of standards along with industry, provinces and academia. That's the National Farmed Animal Health and Welfare Council, which actually convenes t

Agriculture committee  I was going to come to that, to say that because it is a provincial and a producer's responsibility, our inspectors are not there because of the jurisdiction. Our inspectors are only there in case there is a drug-related disease, which is regulated under the Health of Animals A

Agriculture committee  Yes, biosecurity is very important and we actually communicate with stakeholders to implement biosecurity. Especially, you talked about African swine fever, which is a great threat to the Canadian pig population, which is an important economic factor in the Canadian agriculture i

Agriculture committee  Thank you again. The current resources that agencies end up deploying are for inspectors to be working under the Health of Animals Act to investigate diseases. The resources are now being deployed to investigate or to enforce regarding trespassing, which will be new work for the

Agriculture committee  Good day, Mr. Chair. My name is Dr. Jaspinder Komal and I am Canada’s chief veterinary officer and the vice-president of science at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. With me today is Dr. Mary Jane Ireland, who serves as the executive director of animal health, and Mr. Kelvin

Agriculture committee  My pleasure.

Agriculture committee  What I was trying to say is that animal welfare is front and centre for all consumers, both domestic and international. If you don't follow what is happening in the international scene, then I think we don't have that tool to negotiate market access. We need to bring ourselves to

Agriculture committee  The humane transport regulations have been 10 years in the making. We have been working on them. The last time these regulations were put in place was in the seventies, so we wanted to modernize them. We know there's a study going on, but we looked at all of the current studies a

Agriculture committee  Thank you.

Agriculture committee  No problem. I'm sorry, but could you give me the question again?

Agriculture committee  As you know, we've been working at it for some time now. At the forum we had in Ottawa, we wanted to raise global awareness in addition to being prepared in Canada and the U.S. to try to prevent this infection from coming here. We also wanted to make sure the region of the Americ

Agriculture committee  The problem has to do with certain exports, and it's about labelling. The labels were on the boxes, not the products. We are working with Chinese authorities now. Our people on the ground at the Canadian embassy are working with people over there to fix the problem.

Agriculture committee  There was no change. We export a lot, and things always happen. This isn't the first time this has come up. This kind of thing happens, and we take steps to fix it.

Agriculture committee  As the CVO and the VP of science, I do engage with the faculties of agriculture and veterinary medicine quite often, but more so on this. One, we wanted to raise awareness with everybody. We've never had this disease in Canada. We developed training materials that we shared with

Agriculture committee  Thank you for the question. We are working with various stakeholders on the wild pig issue. We are raising everyone's awareness about the tremendous importance of biosecurity. We don't want wild pigs to come into contact with domestic pigs. Preventing that contact is what will p