We would like to see ourselves included in any kind of base of agriculture where people are still able to access workers, be it on farms and so forth, and to have that access to labour.
With regard to the loss of the temporary foreign worker program, I mean, our industry would be a success story in terms of the pathway to permanency. I can speak specifically to our operation. We're short by 100 workers. We've been fighting to fill those 100 jobs for, honestly, multiple years now. We just churn through people. We actually go through on average about 50%; we have 50 to 60 workers who churn every single month. It's very difficult to run an operation when you're constantly trying to train people and educate them. This is food. We have high standards as to what needs to be done in our operation.
That's a burden on our plants. The way we get around that often is with overtime, or we move work to other parts, or we don't do value-added activities. It's something that needs to be addressed. Despite our efforts to do labour assessments and various other things like that....
I can speak to where we are in western Canada. We are active in trying to hire people out of the native community as well, and yet we can't staff our operations.