Yes, certainly. Right now I'm co-chairing the national agriculture, food and beverage manufacturing workforce strategy with the Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council and Food and Beverage Canada. We are engaging industry stakeholders from across Canada across a series of different pillars, speaking to everything from the need for immigration reform and improvements to our temporary foreign worker programming to perceptions in career awareness to HR best practices, workplace culture and beyond.
I think what is critical here is engaging stakeholders from across the country, because there is no one entity that can tackle this issue, nor any person who can put their hand up and say, “We've done enough here”, because clearly the problem is getting worse, not just in agriculture but up and down the value chain. We've never heard so much from our producer members as we have over the past year about challenges in the food processing world relating to labour. I think we do need to take a value chain approach, but certainly one that is pan-Canadian and engaging the entire industry, because we need buy-in and support from all the stakeholders across the country.