Minister, last spring when the pandemic hit, we saw delays in getting seasonal agricultural workers and temporary foreign workers onto farms. We saw the drastic conditions that some of the workers in the greenhouses in the Leamington area were put into.
I'm wondering if you have a plan to work with Health Canada or with your colleagues at ESDC so that when the workers start arriving in the new year.... Is there a plan in place to make sure they can get to work right away so that we won't lose food production and farmers won't go through the catastrophic events of losing their entire crops, as we saw last spring?
As you know, food security is a big issue and we need to ensure that we have it. We need to ensure that our farmers have the workers they need and that they come on time. Will you commit to working with them to ensure that they can get to work right away?