Thank you so much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to all of our witnesses.
I'll start with Mr. Johnstone. I wanted to talk to you about the recent closure in Red Deer at the Olymel plant. We had a representative from Olymel appear before our committee to talk a little bit about that.
I wanted to get your perspective to start off with. How are the workers doing at that plant? How are they dealing with the new situation they find themselves in?
Also, could you maybe open the conversation up a bit more broadly from labour's point of view? We have found during the course of the study that meat-processing plants have become so concentrated that when they get shut down, it has such a huge cascading effect on the whole supply chain.
From your point of view, how are we to inoculate our processing plants and, of course, the workers who work in them from these future shocks to the system?