That's really important. One of our challenges as farmers is that if we don't have a supporting processing business to take our product.... The best example would be that a lot of the meat processing plants are operating at about 75% capacity with some of the restrictions put on them previously under the temporary foreign worker program. With a lot of their value-added and their most highly profitable lines, they've had to take people off those lines just to keep their main lines running in the meat processing plants, which very quickly means they become unprofitable. Any processing facility that is not profitable for very long is soon gone, and we lose one more market for what we produce. That's very important.
We need a balanced supply of labour, so it's not just about temporary foreign workers. It's about women and agriculture and all the underutilized parts of Canadian society. Also, as Portia mentioned, young people need to know that there are some really exciting careers in agriculture. It's long been lacking in the education system. We need to get to the full gamut, right from primary school through to guidance counsellors.
There are really great places to work and very technical jobs in agriculture. It's not just the grunt work people think agriculture is about. There are some really good-paying jobs. There are some really good career opportunities. It doesn't matter whether it's HR or marketing. It's working with people. As farms get larger, we need a lot more people with HR skills. That's something farmers typically lack. No farmer hires people by choice, and no farmer is born a good HR manager.