Agriculture committee  No.

Agriculture committee  I may ask the experts who are here with me today to help with that, but it can vary tremendously. The evidence we have to this point, based on the one positive sample, is that we are looking at a very, very low rate of infestation on those Alberta farms, but keep in mind that the

Agriculture committee  I don't have that detail. I don't have the details around the exact amount.

Agriculture committee  I'll ask our vice-president of science, Dr. Martine Dubuc, to respond to that question. Thank you.

Agriculture committee  No, we did not.

Agriculture committee  Yes. Once we found that sample, we assessed it and validated it. Obviously we have international obligations that we must abide by, and we followed up with notifications through the appropriate channels, particularly to the U.S.

Agriculture committee  A significant amount of sample was taken.

Agriculture committee  We were trying to find it. That's our job.

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen. I appreciate the opportunity to appear before this committee. My name is Cameron Prince, I am the vice-president of operations at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. Today I will be speaking about potato cyst nematodes, PCNs. There

Agriculture committee  In fairness to my colleague Sandra, she's only been with the agency a short period of time. Some of these things go back historically, and Gord and I have been around for a while. I think the agency is quite proud of what we've done in our fairly short history of ten years. You

Agriculture committee  We're very aware of the need to explain what we're doing, to communicate to our stakeholders, to help them to understand why we have to do certain things that may impact on them.

Agriculture committee  In clarification on the payment to the inspectors, this is entirely in the meat slaughter sector, so this is the largest inspection group that we have in the agency. Those are the inspectors who work on the line in the slaughter plants. They had been assigned a rating in the hier

Agriculture committee  I'll do questions one and three. On consistency and enforcement, I believe you're talking about humane transport regulations. That's what we enforce at CFIA, humane transport regulations. We do about 30,000 inspections a year at sales, barns, we do roadside blitzes in coopera

Agriculture committee  I must confess I'm not an expert on the issue; I am aware of it. My understanding was there had been some consultations around that change, and yes, I'm aware that there was some concern in the industry. I believe it wasn't necessarily done as a cost-saving measure but in the in

Agriculture committee  Yes, I'll try to answer as well. As you know, we work in pet foods. We continue to provide export certification and inspection of imports for pet food. It's an area that's under study at the agency. We were asked to go back and look at some of the applicants for pet food in the