Thank you for your question.
It's a good question, and I apologize to the interpreters because I have it on the English channel.
I'll be very quick. I want to talk about the situation today, because we're dealing with a very unique environment where we have multiple layers of authority and multiple layers of responsibility to ensure the safety of the workers.
First it's getting them into the country, and the protocols we are working with to move them from their point of origin to the processing facility and/or area they're working within or the farm they're working on.
The fundamental challenge we're dealing with right now is the unknown. We all recognize the recent changes to the entry requirements into Canada and the challenges we're now dealing with, targeting a March 14 date, without a clear understanding relative to whether the temporary foreign workers are required to stay in a government-issued hotel and/or whether they will be exempt to enable them to transfer seamlessly to the farm for the quarantine period.
There is a range of challenges we're looking at that continually add more costs, so we look back at the issue of costs in the system.
The other piece around this is municipal and provincial.
On the issue of today, if we have a foreign worker coming into the country, they land in Toronto. If they have to hold in Toronto for three days because of the new measures and then they have to go to the Atlantic provinces, they have to hold for another 14 days in quarantine. Now we are up to 17 days out of the workforce, which is also a burden on the individual.