Labour is an issue because our work is seasonal and no one wants to pursue a career in a seasonal type of job.
For me, I'm involved in the SAWP program. I bring in Mexican workers. That's been a godsend. In the past, people would say, “Oh, yes, I'll work for you, I'll work for you,” and then they wouldn't show up the next day, which meant I had to scramble to get the 50 bins of apples off that day. It's just a real headache.
It's kind of funny; when you listen to the radio, you hear about how there are a lot of unemployed Canadians, and yet I have trouble finding Canadian workers for my farm. So maybe another possibility is that someone could be on EI or partial EI and work for a farmer at the same time, to kind of have that incentive to go and do some seasonal work. It's just a suggestion.