Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Let me begin by saying thank you for excellent testimony from both of the witnesses.
I'm going to begin by directing some questions to Dr. Mussell.
Al, it's good to see you again. Your words that we've often shared in conversations, “Dave, the market is always right, even when you think it's wrong,” ring in my head. Here we are trying to enhance the market for processing capacity in Canada. You've given us a lot to unpack.
I had a question prepared around the location specifically of meat slaughtering capacity and the trade-off between economies of scale and nearness to supply or nearness to market. I'm going to expand that because you touched on exactly that but introduced another factor, which was access to labour.
How does access to temporary foreign workers feed into that matrix of economies of scale, access to market or to supply and access to labour? Can you comment further on that?