Mr. Davies, maybe I'll follow up in a little more detail, just so you're prepared. Some of the questions I was going to ask you concerned the fact that in their recent meeting in November 2020 the federal and provincial governments formed a working group to address the imbalance between the retail sector and the processing sector that you referred to.
I wanted to dive a little more deeply into Olymel's reaction to that—whether you feel that the action so far is moving at the correct pace and whether you think it's going to be adequate. Can you illustrate a little more on that particular issue? It's certainly one that has come up from previous witnesses. It would be great to have a more fulsome answer from you in that respect.
Mr. Eikelenboom, I think a lot of regions in Canada are under similar circumstances as where you're from. Certainly the way COVID-19 has impacted our processing sector, particularly in meat processing, has led many regions to rethink our dependency on the old status quo supply network.
Maybe you can fill us in with a little more detail on the efforts thus far to try to secure federal funding for a federally regulated plant, because I think other regions in Canada would love to learn from your efforts so they could take a shortcut and not have to start from square one. Can you fill us in a little bit more on the efforts thus far?