Agriculture committee  It's mostly the vehicles.

Agriculture committee  Yes, I'll just mention that the principles of zoning have been determined by the OIE and are recognized. The issue is the recognition of the implementation of those zoning principles among trading partners. We know we have an agreement with the U.S. and we have an agreement with

Agriculture committee  With regard to disease control, in addition to animal movement, we have to do tracing of all movement onto farms. I think eventually technology will help because when we do tracing it's not only the animal movement but also the feed truck movement. For anybody who has gone to the

Agriculture committee  I am not involved in transportation matters. Are you referring specifically to the shipment of hogs from Canada to the United States?

Agriculture committee  As far as I know, no U.S. hogs are coming to Canada for slaughter or fattening. Any U.S. hogs entering Canada must be quarantined and comply with CFIA health regulations. On our end, we certainly ship a lot of hogs to the United States, but I am not familiar with the details of

Agriculture committee  No, not in detail, because each scenario is different. We would have to start with specific scenarios and try to quantify them. In any case, there is no detailed study showing all the potential and secondary impacts.

Agriculture committee  What we know is that there is no treatment or vaccine for the disease. I was reading an article this week reporting that the U.S. Department of Agriculture—or was it an expert—is not expecting a vaccine to be available for at least five or six years. The challenge is that we are

Agriculture committee  Most countries in the world are members of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), which receives formal international reports. However, member countries remain free to decide whether or not to report cases that occur on their territory. For example, North Korea is a mem

Agriculture committee  I guess we didn't see any timeline on the implementation, so I don't know if they're spread over five years for the implementation. Our message is that we know it takes a few months to train those dogs, we fully understand that, but given the urgency of the situation, they should

Agriculture committee  Our main concern there is if people use food scraps. I guess if the meat is from Canada, then the food scraps are not of much concern because we don't have the disease yet. The issue is if one family receives a visitor bringing some contaminated pork product carrying the virus fr

Agriculture committee  Producers are already aware of the significance of diseases. Work has been done in Quebec for several years. It's a key issue that Mr. Duval can speak to. When a new issue like this arises, we, at the EQSP, will make many presentations to producers and stakeholders to communicat

Agriculture committee  The PigTrace program was created by a regulation of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, or CFIA. Only certain people have access to the data, so CFIA operations people. As for the management of PigTrace, the Équipe québécoise de santé porcine doesn't have access to the data. O

Agriculture committee  Yes, these are all potential markets. They are the same markets that Mr. Dickson mentioned. As we said, there are 80. Of course, they aren't all of the same importance. Our interest is to have as many prior agreements as possible that recognize zoning with as many of our trading

Agriculture committee  In fact, the disease was recognized in Africa in the 1910s and 1920s. It came to Europe in the 1970s and 1980s, but was successfully eradicated there, as well as in Brazil and some Caribbean countries. The current spread began in Georgia in 2007, and the disease has spread to se

Agriculture committee  I think it's a bigger issue than we think. In my opinion, it's related to the fact that there are many aspects to be addressed in the sector. At the moment, it's this issue that is becoming the most urgent and deserves the most attention. Some plans have been prepared, but there