Agriculture committee  Mary-Jane, do you want to start off, and I will continue?

Agriculture committee  To the member's question and to my colleague, we have a very strong collaborative partnership with our provincial and territorial governments that leads to mandates on animal health provincially or federally. That collaboration and partnership is quite active, where we are engagi

Agriculture committee  Mr. Chair, and to my colleague and to the member, it is going to be a high burden for us to prove at the moment—with regard to the term “reckless”—that someone willfully or knowingly entered the premises with the outcome of impacting biosecurity and spreading a disease. That whol

Agriculture committee  Mr. Chair, this is another excellent question. When we look at the geography of Canada, a very vast country in which the rural population lives in our most geographically vast area, you are absolutely correct. The agency would have to significantly increase its staff complement

Agriculture committee  The CFIA is the responsible authority under the Health of Animals Act. If we were to go to the notion of biosecurity, of course we work very closely with our provincial partners and territorial governments around the authorities they have within the context of their health of ani

Agriculture committee  Mr. Chair, to the member's question, this is an interesting situation. Of course, timeliness would be important to reaching that conclusion about protesters being outside or inside the barn and whether there was some actual situation of biosecurity issues resulting in a potential

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. To the member's question, the process we would use as public officers in the agency would be to call the local police authority to assist us in a matter. That could range from many factors, such as if there were a humane transport issue at play. If we moved

Agriculture committee  Mr. Chair, on the member's question, you ask a very big, loaded question for us. Obviously we are trained on the causal review of cases to really get to a result of what the circumstances were. To your point, this would represent a very fundamental shift for the agency, its rol