Agriculture committee  There's no absolute with infectious diseases. That's the big issue. We can't say zero. I could say that the risk, apart from mink and COVID, is probably very low. We're not going to see avian influenza introduced by someone walking onto a farm. There are potential risks; the in

Agriculture committee  Sorry, Mr. MacGregor; we have a fire alarm here, so I had to find a spot outside the building where I could hear. Hopefully my audio is okay. When it comes to some of the specific language of the bill and how that would impact things, that's not really my area of expertise. I ca

Agriculture committee  For biosecurity in general, the industry has done a very good job. There are very good national standards for all our industries. There is varying implementation of biosecurity by the different sectors. How they run chickens, for example, is very different from beef cattle, dairy

Agriculture committee  Are you asking with respect to people coming on the farm?

Agriculture committee  I'm not sure exactly what you're asking. One of the things we're concerned about is that the biosecurity aspect is preventing movement of things onto the facility that aren't there or letting them spread within a facility. A pathogen or an infectious agent will come into the faci

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I will be brief. I will just give my background and will be happy to answer questions, which I assume will be directed from the biosecurity and infection control standpoints. By way of background, I'm a veterinarian internal medicine specialist who focuses