Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I thank the witnesses for being here with us.
I would like to talk about the transport industry. Since I was once a producer, I had to deal with transport companies. In your document, which I have here, you say that a cattle carrier must both be a producer and a professional driver, as he must take care of the animals he transports in his truck.
Thirty years ago, there were a large number of small family farms and so there were more in any given sector. Currently, there are far fewer. There is a decrease in the number of workers as well. There are fewer producers. Consequently, there are fewer people with the skills needed to drive these trucks. You see, these people knew how to get the cows into the trucks to transport them to the slaughterhouse, they were used to it.
Where do you hire your workers? Who is interested in transporting the animals?