We would like to have the opportunity for industrial butchers to be eligible to use the express entry program. We want to be able to offer jobs to people around the world who have butcher skills to come to Canada and work in our facilities. We want full-time workers; that's pretty important to us.
We of course also want to have as much flexibility as possible for those who are here currently under the temporary foreign worker program to be eligible to stay and apply for Canadian citizenship. They're here, they're working, and we know they're working well. They want to work in these meat factories. We want Canadians to work there; we can't get them. So we need to keep them.
Otherwise, as was mentioned, animals will simply go to the United States and the processing jobs will be lost to the United States.