My name is Jen Martin and I work for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency out of the Walkerton Office in Ontario. This Agency is dedicated to protecting Canada’s food supply. We all have to eat - it is something that we maybe disregard and don’t put as much importance on as we should.
We want to make sure that these plants don’t bring in any alien pests or diseases –something that has no natural enemy here or something that we don’t have any way of controlling.
We have a defined mission and that enables us to really see what our jobs do at the end of the day. I know by inspecting these imported plants that no foreign diseases have come into the country.