Agriculture committee  I can assure you that we are making the best possible use of the resources allocated to us by Parliament.

Agriculture committee  For CFIA, if there's disease or something biosecurity-related, the first thing we will do is make sure the situation is as contained as possible. For example, if it's a disease, we'll send samples to a laboratory to get results After that, we put in place what needs to be done

Agriculture committee  The number of inspections depends on the risk associated with the type of food. For higher-risk food, we inspect more than one in 10 shipments. If the risk is lower, we do fewer inspections. I do not know what food you are talking about exactly.

Agriculture committee  All right. As far as the spent hens are concerned, that is about it.

Agriculture committee  As far as reciprocity of standards is concerned, I would add that we demand the same quality for imported food as we do for food produced in Canada. So there is no difference. The same risk models are being used. However, the risk models may vary depending on the country of origi

Agriculture committee  Thank you for the question. Yes, we have the resources we need. Certainly, during particular weeks in the last outbreak in the fall on the west coast, we had up to 10% of the agency deployed to respond to avian influenza. You referred to the gas supply. We have a system whereby

Agriculture committee  I thank the member for his question. We are currently working with the industry to see what the consequences would be if the World Organization for Animal Health were to issue negligible risk status to Canada. We are also doing a risk analysis, but there are different contexts i

Agriculture committee  Of course, we know about it. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is involved in the importation of these biosolids when they are intended to be used as fertilizers, as seems to be the case according to some of the news reports that have come out this week. We are working with En

Agriculture committee  That's correct. We're managing the potato wart, the pests and the soil that could be on vegetables. If it is and they're not washed, they need to have the same kind of process as potatoes. It's not only for potatoes.

Agriculture committee  No, it's the same. Those industries are way less impacted because they already had the process in place to clean and remove the soil. That's why we heard less of them. Just to correct you regarding compensation, up until now we have spent more than $6 million in compensation to

Agriculture committee  When risk measures need to be taken into account or new information is communicated to us, we obviously take into consideration all the information that is made available to us. The announcement that was made in June by the Prime Minister was not just about the import of Ukrain

Agriculture committee  The agency's role is to ensure the inspection of products coming into Canada. Since Ukraine has never exported chicken to Canada, we have no history of what the potential might be. We know that only three slaughterhouses have been authenticated and recognized as being able to ex

Agriculture committee  I don't think there was any coincidence. The process to allow the import of chickens went through its normal course. The process took longer because of COVID. The assessments were done in 2019. Since then, there has been an exchange of documentation with the authorities and respo

Agriculture committee  What I am explaining is that the process is based on science and information exchange, not on political or administrative requests, which would be at a higher level. If the committee had asked us to wait, it is likely that we would have assessed this request as we must. However,

Agriculture committee  Thank you for the question. Yes, avian influenza has been very present in Canada since February 2022. It is of concern, but it's not transmitted by chickens coming into the country from a foreign country. The most likely scenario is that it's coming from migratory birds. It may