Francis Drouin at the Agriculture and Agri-Food Committee

On March 24th, 2022. See this statement in context.

March 24th, 2022 / 3:55 p.m.

Liberal

Francis Drouin Liberal Glengarry—Prescott—Russell, ON

The Union des producteurs agricoles (UPA) represents some really good dairy farmers in Quebec.

Mr. Caron, you stated that workers could milk on one farm in the morning and then travel to another farm in the evening to provide that same service.

Are your members telling you that even if farmers want some downtime, they often can't do it because there is no replacement service in the farming industry?

Foreign workers would provide that service, because they could go and do the work on neighbouring farms. I think that's also a factor to consider.

Is that right?

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