Agriculture committee  Yes, but efforts have to continue in that direction. With your permission, I would ask Ms. McElwain to explain the cooperative work that Animal Health Canada has been doing in recent years.

Agriculture committee  We do need additional resources, for monitoring purposes, among other things. For example, it's very important to have sniffer dogs to detect meat in particular.

Agriculture committee  A major effort has been made on vaccines. We're discussing swine fever, but various diseases present high risk for our country. When vaccines are developed in cooperation with other countries, we all have an interest in controlling the disease. Currently, no recognized vaccine c

Agriculture committee  It was Mr. Bertinotti who raised that. What I can say is that the regulations have to be improved because it's very costly to develop new vaccines and health products. That puts a major damper on Canadian biosecurity, especially if we're trying to reduce the number of human heal

Agriculture committee  That's an important question. The industry and government have worked very hard to improve the situation, but work remains to be done on crisis assistance programs. I'll ask Ms. Cameron to provide more details on what's been done and what should be done.

Agriculture committee  The Canada Border Services Agency has made significant investments but we agree that the borders are very fluid. Additional efforts are needed, particularly when crises arise and diseases come from elsewhere, as was recently the case in the Caribbean. Additional resources are nee

Agriculture committee  Good evening. Thank you, Mr. Chair, for inviting us to appear before the committee. Thank you as well to the committee members for your work on this issue. My name is Rene Roy, and I am the chair of the Canadian Pork Council. Joining me is our director of on-farm programs, Au

International Trade committee  We must ensure that the products entering Canada meet certain standards. When the two countries do not have the same standards, we say there are non-trade barriers. The standards must be spelled out in the agreements if we do not want to destabilize our industry. It is while the

International Trade committee  The industry had worked on other markets that were profitable, so when there is a contraction, this is when we see that these markets would be so beneficial to us, but we have neglected them in the past. Now it's really important that we find solutions. On the “how”, we are not t

International Trade committee  I don't have the answer on this question.

International Trade committee  It is a problem that could resurface because this idea, this principle, is being revived in the United States. So it is indeed something that worries us. Country of origin labelling is fine, but we want it to be done in accordance with trade agreements. Since there is so much tr

International Trade committee  It is paradoxical indeed, because our products are recognized around the world for their quality. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency ensures that our product quality is very high. It is well-known, including in Japan, which is one of the countries with the highest food quality s

International Trade committee  There is not that I am aware of; from our understanding, there is no dispute resolution regarding the non-tariff trade barriers that we mentioned earlier.

International Trade committee  It's a mechanism that we should use. If it can be successful, then we are happy. If not, there are other ways, political ways and also market ways. It's not that we want to escalate things, but there are various tools we could use in terms of negotiations and just making sure it'

International Trade committee  To answer your first question, yes, there is an opportunity. We are in discussion with the government right now to make sure that these non-tariff trade barriers that have appeared in the first agreement will not be sustained in the final agreement. Yes, there is an opportunity t