The labour shortage is from the farms where cows have calves, right through to the grocery stores. We're challenged to hire people to work, especially in rural Canada. We often won't get applications for well-paying jobs that can include housing, transportation and a quality of life that I think could be envied.
Like I said, it's both a cow-calf and a feedlot challenge. It doesn't matter the kind of production. When you get to the spot where you're bigger than one family and you need to hire somebody, boy, it's hard to even get applications. We're short on veterinarians, truck drivers and all manner of skilled professions and service providers.
The government can help make it easy for people to become Canadian. We need to ensure that applicants from outside of Canada can get here to do these jobs. We have trucks that are sitting empty. We need trucks drivers, too.