Lianne Rood at the Agriculture and Agri-Food Committee

On November 19th, 2020. See this statement in context.

November 19th, 2020 / 3:45 p.m.

Conservative

Lianne Rood Conservative Lambton—Kent—Middlesex, ON

Thank you very much.

Producers, and processors and others along the supply chain have had to, again, make significant investments to keep their workers safe. The processing sector has estimated that the additional cost to them has been about $800 million.

I'm just wondering why the processing fund was only set at $77.5 million, which is well short of the actual cost we have seen for processors to keep their employees safe.

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