Ms. Cloutier, you also talked about the major challenges in recruiting workers for the food processing industry. To recruit labour, the industry must offer good jobs. Why are people shunning those jobs? Is it because the companies are too far from the big centres where so many people are looking for work?
If you set up a plant in my region that needs 2,000 workers, you would have tremendous difficulty finding people to fill those jobs. Around big cities like Montreal, there are about 250,000 or 300,000 people looking for work, but they do not want to commute 40 or 50 kilometres to take those jobs.
Do you have anything to suggest?