Primary control zone (PCZ-234 – Alberta)

2024-06-26: Revocation order (PDF – 202 kb)
2024-02-11: Designation order (PDF – 477 kb)
2024-02-11: Declaration order (PDF – 311 kb)

Revocation order

Revocation Order (Section 27.3 of the Health of Animals Act)

WHEREAS, I, Jean-Guy Forgeron, Executive Vice-President, acting as President of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, am of the opinion that the order declaring the primary control zone set out in the Schedule attached hereto is no longer necessary with regard to highly pathogenic avian influenza that may affect animals or that may be transmitted by animals to persons.

WHEREAS I am authorized under section 27.3 of the Health of Animals Act^Footnote 1 (the Act) to revoke an order made under subsection 27(1) of the Act;

THEREFORE, I hereby revoke the Declaration Order made pursuant to subsection 27(1) of the Act in respect of the primary control zone set out in the Schedule attached hereto;

AND THEREFORE I hereby also revoke the Designation Order made pursuant to subsection 27(2) of the Health of Animals Act in respect of the animals and things set out in the Schedule attached hereto.

Dated at Ottawa, Ontario this 26th day of June, 2024 at 11:00 am.

Jean-Guy Forgeron
Acting as President of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency

Schedule

Primary Control Zone (PCZ)	Primary Control Zone Declaration Order Date	Designation Order Date
PCZ-234	February 11, 2024	February 11, 2024

Designation order

WHEREAS, on February 11, 2024, primary control zone 234 was declared by Jean-Guy Forgeron, the Executive Vice-President of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, under subsection 27(1) of the Health of Animals Act^{Footnote 1} for highly pathogenic avian influenza; and whereas I am authorized under section 33 of the Act to exercise the power of the Minister under subsection 27(2) of the Act.

THEREFORE, under subsection 27(2) of the Act, in respect of that primary control zone, I hereby, by order, designate the animals and things listed in the Schedule attached as being capable of being infected or contaminated by the highly pathogenic avian influenza.

Dated at Calgary, Alberta on February 11, 2024, at 11:30 am.

Mike DiMambro
Inspector

Schedule

Commercial^{Footnote 2} or non-commercial^{Footnote 3} poultry. This includes day-old poultry and hatching eggs, eggs and other products or by-products of such captive domestic poultry, and things that have been exposed to such a bird.

AND

Other captive birds (including birds that are raised in captivity for racing, exhibitions, zoological collections, rehabilitation, competitions, or pets) if movements may result in contact with commercial or non-commercial poultry or their facilities. This includes eggs, other products or by-products of other captive birds, and things that have been exposed to such a bird.

Footnotes

Footnote 1

S.C. 1990, c. 21.

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Footnote 2

Commercial poultry

Chickens and turkeys raised under Canada's supply management (quota) system for producing or selling their products or breeding for these purposes OR
Birds raised, outside the quota system, on a premises with:
- 1000 or more birds on-site in total, for producing or selling their products or breeding for those purposes OR
- 300 or more Anseriformes for producing or selling their products or breeding for these purposes

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Footnote 3

Non-commercial poultry

Birds raised in smaller flocks of fewer than 300 for producing or selling their products locally for limited sales or for breeding for these purposes

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Declaration order

WHEREAS, I, Jean-Guy Forgeron, Executive Vice-President of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, under the delegated authority of the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food (the Honorable Lawrence MacAulay), believe that the disease, highly pathogenic avian influenza, exists in the area in Canada described in the schedule attached hereto.

THEREFORE, I hereby declare, pursuant to subsection 27(1) of the Health of Animals Act^{Footnote 1}, that the area described in the Schedule attached is a Primary Control Zone, effective the date below, in which I believe that highly pathogenic avian influenza exists.

Dated at Ottawa, Ontario this day of February 11, 2024 at 1:00 pm.

Jean-Guy Forgeron
Executive Vice-President of the CFIA

Schedule

"Primary Control Zone for highly pathogenic avian influenza in the Province of Alberta – Declaration Schedule" described as:

The following area in the province of Alberta bounded by:

Geographical boundaries for: Primary Control Zone 234 (PCZ-234)

Starting at the junction of Township Road 500 and Range Road 80
North on Range Road 80 to Township Road 502
West on Township Road 502 to Range Road 82
North on Range Road 82 continuing East then North on Range Road 82 to TC Highway 16
East on TC Highway 16 to Range Road 80
North on Range Road 80 to Range Road 80A
Northwest on Range Road 80A to Range Road 75A
Northwest on Range Road 75A to Range Road 80
North on Range Road 80 to Township Road 514
East on Township Road 514 to Range Road 74
North on Range Road 74 to Township Road 520
East on Township Road 520 to Highway 41
South on Highway 41 to Township Road 514
East on Township Road 514 to Range Road 63A
South on Range Road 63A to Township Road 513
East on Township Road 513 to Range Road 62
South on Range Road 62 to GPS coordinate 110.792961W 53.381265N
Southeast from GPS coordinate 110.792961W 53.381265N across terrain to GPS coordinate 110.761246W 53.358015N on Range Road 61
South on Range Road 61 to TC Highway 16
West on TC Highway 16 to Range Road 62
South on Range Road 62 to Township Road 500
West on Township Road 500 to GPS coordinate 110.907244W 53.277721N
West from GPS coordinate 110.907244W 53.277721N across terrain to GPS coordinate 110.956125W 53.277721N on Township Road 500
West on Township Road 500 to GPS coordinate 110.980458W 53.277644N
West from GPS coordinate 110.980458W 53.277644N across terrain to GPS coordinate 111.024832W 53.277567N at the junction of Township Road 500 and Range Road 80.