Thank you, Minister.
On another matter, I'd like to discuss the equally important labour shortage issue. You discussed it earlier in connection with the possibility that employers may hire more temporary foreign workers, especially in the processing sector. This is also a problem in the production sector, but the labour shortage is a glaring problem in the processing sector. Just yesterday, we learned that the Olymel company had been forced to reduce the number of hogs slaughtered from 37,000 to 25,000 a week at just one of its plants.
We know there are agreements between Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and two other departments, Employment, Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion Canada and Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.
Is there a clear plan here? I haven't heard of any new workers going to work in those plants since the announcements were made in January.