Agriculture committee  I think, given the fact that we export so much of our product, it's important that we have the availability of all the markets that we have access to today. I think the notion of China being open is great, obviously, to Mr. Nadeau's point. There are certain products that go to Ch

Agriculture committee  It can feel as if it's China, but it's just not all about China.

Agriculture committee  There absolutely is a global effort to find a vaccine. Unfortunately, the timeline that we hear about, because of the nature of the disease, is a minimum of three years and up to 10. There is some work being done in Canada around looking for tests and being able to test, but can

Agriculture committee  For this bit, I would probably need to talk to Rory. He's a lot closer to that than I would be, but I can get you a name, or a series of names, if required.

Agriculture committee  What I'm referring to is.... The meat itself is perfectly fine for humans. There is no issue for humans. However, one of the things we know is that, if this happens, people will be concerned. Whether you tell people there is no harm in it—or not—people will be concerned. The abi

Agriculture committee  Yes, it is. It's a positive. We're on a couple of teams that are out of the U.S. We are at the same table with Tyson, Seaboard and Smithfield—all the main players in the U.S.—and we share whatever we get out of that with our Canadian counterparts, so it's plugged in. There is a

Agriculture committee  I've never seen the level of co-operation that exists today in the industry. I don't work directly with Mr. Nadeau. He would work with my boss, but I work with Sylvain who works for Mr. Nadeau and who is excellent. We were at the symposium that Olymel ran in western Canada. Even

Agriculture committee  Outside of the push with the OIE and managing for the trade, I think that in front of us now is aggressive surveillance and how we want to handle that surveillance across Canada—lined up properly provincially and federally. That could use some investment and support. I think that

Agriculture committee  Sure. There are a couple of things. We're in an enhanced buyer security situation today, so we take it to another level. This means that everything has to be signed in and signed out. All trucks are watched going in. Most trucks that go into barns where hogs would be or to deliv

Agriculture committee  I think the challenge in front of us is the current OIE rules on ASF and not being able to trade. We've talked already today about how the minute that this happens—whether it's a wild boar in Cape Breton or Vancouver Island, even if it's away from the domestic hog production side

Agriculture committee  I don't have it handy with me today, but we could certainly pull something together on behalf of the industry that would be able to help us shore up some of those non-reportables. To your point, they do exist.

Agriculture committee  I know we should be working on them now. I hope I'm wrong, but when this happens, everything needs to be in a bow and ready to go. There is not going to be a lot of time. The nature of the hog industry in Canada only allows so much to back up. As you heard Mr. Nadeau say earlie

Agriculture committee  We put a fair bit of effort into that. There is PigTrace right now inside the pork industry, which needs to be reinvested in and updated. The speed at which the information goes into the system, it's taking too long. Among industry, government and some others, we need to be able

Agriculture committee  I'm not aware of that, in terms of DNA sequencing. I'm not aware that Canada is currently working on anything related to ASF, at that level. As you know, you would need very high-level labs to do that. I understand the U.S. is starting to look at those things, but I'm not aware t

Agriculture committee  [Technical difficulty—Editor] the U.S. situation, but we do know that the Japanese test for ASF in the finished product they get at the airports, that they would stop at the airports. They have found at least two—that I'm aware of—live samples of ASF in product that was headed in