Position Statements
Impacts to Terrestrial Animal and Aquaculture Production Facilities Associated with Unauthorized Entry to Premises (2021)
Producers and industry partners work to protect and promote the health and welfare of their animals and unauthorized entry to these premises can negatively affect animal welfare and threaten animal health by introduction or spread of disease.
CCVO Position Statement: Testing of Animals SARS-CoV-2 (2020)
The COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic is a human health crisis. The spread of COVID-19 is being driven by human-to-human transmission. Currently, there is no evidence that animals play any significant role in propagation of the pandemic.
Impacts to livestock and poultry associated with unauthorized entry to agricultural premises (2020)
In response to recent incidents of animal activism involving Canadian swine and poultry operations and the subsequent decisions of certain jurisdictions to develop legislation to address the risks related to activism on agricultural premises, the CCVO embarked on the development of a position statement.
Restocking of premises with new cervids following detection of chronic wasting disease in a farmed cervid herd (2020)
The CCVO recommends that all federal, provincial, and territorial authorities explore and pursue the development of legislation, programs, and/or policies that support restricting or prohibiting restocking with cervid animals on cervid farms that have experienced previous case(s) of CWD, especially situations in which environmental contamination with prions likely occurred.