Thank you for your question.
I believe you want to know whether we have a solution to get us through this crisis. We have to establish parameters together, that is everyone around this table. As we speak, there is a farm income crisis that has been exacerbated by the health question, particularly in the east and perhaps somewhat in central Canada. I believe we should give our support to the farms, but I see that more as a matter of economic circumstances.
In structural terms, Canada has to establish infrastructures, particularly in order to compete with our major competitors, the Americans. I mentioned that there were few international scale infrastructures in Canada. We have our facility in Red Deer, but we have to address the labour issue. At that plant, we've previously slaughtered as many as 60,000 hogs. We had to lower that figure to 45,000 for lack of labour. We'd like to return to 60,000 and 90,000 hogs. We believe that, with a fully efficient, well-stocked plant, we'd be able to meet the competition.
My colleagues from Maple Leaf Foods have a strategy for central Canada and Manitoba. It remains for us to restructure central Canada and Quebec. The federation described the situation in Quebec. We have begun the restructuring process and we're trying to create large-scale infrastructure that will enable us to be competitive.
To answer your question, once these issues are settled — we're also working with workers to adjust our compensation to that of our international competitors — if we put the necessary infrastructure in place, together, we hope, with the producers, in a new risk-sharing approach, there will be a future. We still believe in the future of the pork industry, but we have to restructure it now, all together.