Agriculture committee  Right now, we're promoting the program and the responsibility Parliament gave us. We already have 15 dog teams. We are awaiting confirmation of a dozen more dog teams for this year and another dozen for next year. The availability of dogs is one limiting factor. We have to buy them.

Agriculture committee  The commercial importation of pork and pork products is something that is governed by our regulations in terms of advance data requirements, before you cross the border, so that we are aware when the shipments are coming in. We receive advance information. We do apply a risk-based commercial threat targeting to inform interdictions or inspections that may be appropriate.

Agriculture committee  Yes.

Agriculture committee  We have statistics up to the end of the previous fiscal year, which is 2017-18. Our detector dog service teams were responsible for just over 5,000 searches, which resulted in just over 7,000 interceptions of prohibited food, plant and animal products annually. That resulted in over 400 agricultural monetary penalties.

Agriculture committee  We try not to divulge operational details with regard to the deployment of the dogs. It is certainly fair to say, and I don't think I'm telling any tales out of school, that those airports that have flights from the affected countries are the ones of primary interest to us and where we are focusing our efforts, but as a primary principle we try to use agility as the means by which to manage this disease.

Agriculture committee  The Agriculture and Agri-Food administrative monetary penalties system provides those consequences. The primary one we're dealing with in the traveller stream relates to declarations. If you declare that you don't have food, plant and animal products and you are found to have food, plant and animal products, that is a false declaration, and you are subject to up to a $1,300 penalty.

Agriculture committee  Commercial?

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. As my colleague from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency mentioned, the threat to the Canadian pork industry posed by the outbreak of African swine fever in Eastern Europe and Central Asia is serious and one that we are working very hard with CFIA to prevent.