Agriculture committee  When the long-term management plan was originally created just after the 2000 find, it was created in partnership with the PEI Potato Board as well as the Province of P.E.I. It is really a joint document, from that perspective, in its creation. It is simply a regulatory tool to h

Agriculture committee  Let's sum it up as bad math on the part of the American potato council. It is not something you can average. Soil sampling and the amounts taken each year are a factor of investigations, export samples, which are provided on demand by growers, the national potato wart survey in

Agriculture committee  The United States issued directions to its customs and border patrol services to not accept shipments from P.E.I. through any border point into the United States by midnight on November 22.

Agriculture committee  That's correct. Whether we took some action or not, we would be here having the same conversation today.

Agriculture committee  Yes. Thank you, President. I can't speak to the specifics of what another country may or may not have taken on for—

Agriculture committee  The points of note, as the president has said, are 2000, 2014-2015, 2020, and now 2021. Last year there was a restriction from the fall through to the spring of this year by the United States. You can see that each time the question of potato wart comes up, the United States beco

Agriculture committee  Yes. Thank you, President. It seems on the surface that it's a simple thing, that there have been two little finds. In reality, as I said earlier, there has been a succession of finds: 33 finds over 21 years, with three in the last 12 months. It is really the number of fields

Agriculture committee  The United States has been fairly clear that they are looking, obviously, for the outcome of the investigation and the data related to that. They are also looking for information about the recent detection—what we would call “trace back and trace forward”, the history of that fie

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Chair, for the question. Yes, the findings were found in fields that are regulated and that are for processing.

Agriculture committee  Yes, the long-term management plan was being followed. In fact, it is the long-term management plan that sets the conditions for the investigation, which allows us to demonstrate that we have data and information to show where the pest is and is not. That will be used as part of

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Chair, for the question. There are a couple of key points here. Fundamentally, what has changed is the United States' level of risk tolerance when it comes to this. Second, it is the number of finds in a short period of time: having three finds in the course of less t