Carried Resolutions

Resolution 2

 

Whereas the importation of packaged honey bees from the United States continues to pose a significant risk for importing Africanized honey bee genetics, oxytetracycline resistant American Foulbrood, Varroa destructor mites that are resistant to our current registered treatments

 

And whereas the fact that the most recent risk assessment from CFIA deemed honey bee packages from the USA to be high risk and detrimental to the health of Canadian honey bees

 

Be it resolved that the Ontario beekeepers reaffirm their position that the border remains closed for the importation of package bees from the United States.

 

Moved by: Tom Congdon          Seconded by: Jim Coneybeare  

Passed