Thank you, Mr. Chair.
This is for the Canadian Cattlemen's Association. In your opening remarks, Mr. Lowe, you were referring to the problems that the beef industry has had in maintaining small to medium-size packers and so on.
Last summer, in late August, I was invited by the B.C. Cattlemen's Association to come to the south Okanagan region and visit two ranches that had won sustainability awards. Of course we were talking about the stresses that the pandemic had caused, with the backlogs in processing capacity. I remember the ranchers talking about how they had to develop a few innovative ways to try to do their own processing.
Do you have any threads or stories that you can share with the committee? You talked about the resiliency that the cattle industry has shown through this. Are there any lessons that can be learned from how that resiliency manifested itself and how they tried to take what was essentially a very bad deal from the rolling backlog and maybe try to promote a little more local food security and get connected a little more with local food networks, and so on?