Agriculture committee  Oh, man, I don't envy any of you guys. That's a loaded question, and you're asking me to comment on the process of something that I have no idea about. I can only imagine that it's convoluted, long and hair-pullingly slow.

Agriculture committee  When it comes to bees.... To take a step back from there, if you look at a hive, bees tend to start to fly and really start to forage once it hits a temperature of about 10°C, and there's sunlight. That's when the foragers want to leave. They want to go out and fly. They're quite oblivious to the fact that they're put on the back of a truck.

Agriculture committee  The weather you drive through does have an impact on moving bees. In the last three years, we've had three Las Niñas back to back, and now we're into an El Niño summer. Is that climate change? Is this just a natural progression? Is this a natural cyclical event that happens? It's not unlike things we experienced back in the early 1980s.

Agriculture committee  How to balance public safety, animal safety and driver fatigue is a really hard question to answer. This is where the law is an ass. It's a hard, arbitrary line, and once you cross it.... Being prevented from doing the right thing in whatever situation you're in, because each situation is slightly different and sometimes it needs a unique and specific resolution for that particular thing....

Agriculture committee  There are a couple of things that I would like to change. If I could rewrite the regulations, I would rewrite a couple of portions of it. Number one, if you go to application section 2, it says: (1) These Regulations apply to all commercial vehicles other than the following: (a) a two or three-axle commercial vehicle being used for (i) transporting the primary products of a farm....

Agriculture committee  I do apologize.

Agriculture committee  Bees like to fly. They don't like to stay inside the hive, especially when the sun is shining. If you're driving down the road and have hives on the back of the truck, even if they're netted, you get escapes. They want to get out. In the back of the truck, they get hot and want to ventilate.

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much. You're very kind. I'll be brief. The plan was, load the hives, start around six or seven o'clock in the evening, be on the road by eight o'clock, get to Sicamous, try to get six hours of sleep in, refuel, and then make the jump from Sicamous back to Stettler, which is under that 12-hour mark.

Agriculture committee  I want to thank the committee for taking the time to study this issue regarding electronic logs and for including the Alberta Beekeepers Commission. We bring a unique problem to the ELD requirements. As many of you may know, I am a beekeeper here in Stettler, Alberta. I pollinate hybrid canola seed and I produce a tremendous amount of honey.