I have just a comment. We haven't submitted to the committee directly, but the national livestock groups have been working on this for over a year. We have a group that has met quite routinely and has communicated and met with both the agriculture and transport ministers' staff to discuss the issue.
It would be critically important, and here is why. On the guidance around whether that's an animal welfare issue, the inspectors are transport department inspectors, not animal welfare people, and the concern when you leave it to just guidance is that it becomes very subjective.
The gold standard would be a change in the regulation and, in the interim, some strong guidance. At a very minimum, the livestock sectors support Animal Health Canada's CLT division, Canadian Livestock Transport, which trains truck drivers on humane transportation.
If we want to provide guidance to Transport Canada folks in determining if there's an animal welfare issue, I see a great fit for them to be taking the training. I think we created a second tier for inspectors—government inspectors or whatever—to learn about what humane transport is through that. At a minimum, I would really encourage the committee to consider having inspectors use that as education on guidance.