Agriculture committee  I think it is actually more just a good working relationship and understanding between the two groups. Farmers are very practical and just jump in and get things done. It seems that CFIA was more about everything following the rules to the letter, and that had some major implicat

Agriculture committee  Yes.

Agriculture committee  No. I'm actually on Vancouver Island. We are isolated here, but we had a number of cases of high path AI due to backyard flocks. A number in very small and very remote communities came up.

Agriculture committee  We haven't had that from trespassers. Consider what we go through ourselves to just enter our barn on a daily basis. We change our boots at the front of the barn and we wear our barn slippers. Then from our anteroom, we have access to two different flocks. We have separate boot

Agriculture committee  No, I haven't heard of an instance like that, but it can be very difficult to know how you contracted avian influenza.

Agriculture committee  No, we did not.

Agriculture committee  Yes, there are different ways to manage it. There are many issues around sourcing the CO2 material to be able to depopulate a full barn, but certainly, the electric shock truck is mobile and is capable of doing it. It does require people to be in the barns handling all the hens d

Agriculture committee  Absolutely. I know it's been frustrating for the pork farm in the Lower Mainland. A busload of trespassers came in 2019 and went directly into their barn. It's always a concern for us, as producers.

Agriculture committee  I'd also like to [Technical difficulty—Editor] the community relationship improvements and having stronger education for backyard flocks. That's something that we saw a lot during this event; it was spread through backyard flocks. We would encourage wild bird mortality reporting,

Agriculture committee  Thank you for having me today. I hope the technical issues are okay. I believe it's with the translation, so I will do my best to speak slowly and clearly. I just want to acknowledge that I'm on the territory of the Halkomelem-speaking peoples here on Vancouver Island.

Agriculture committee  I was just planning on cuffing it. I do have some notes, but they're minimal.

Agriculture committee  My name is Cammy Lockwood and I'm a farmer on Vancouver Island. My husband and I farm about five acres of land, and we have 6,000 laying hens. We're part of Canada's supply-managed system. We came to that through the new producer program in 2015. I'm hoping I can provide you w

Agriculture committee  No worries. Biosecurity on our farm, especially as we have a number of different animals, we are very often changing our boots and using boot dips. We have secured access zones and locks, as well as very robust rodent-control and pest-control programs. We are very aware of the b