Good afternoon, everyone.
I thank the witnesses, Mr. Rosser and Ms. Akman, for joining us.
As the study on the supply chain is extremely broad, we have tried to decide which aspects we wanted to go explore further. One of the things we are hearing people talk about the most on the ground is the severe labour shortage.
Every time we meet with stakeholders from the food processing sector, they tell us that up to 25% of their positions are vacant. They have submitted concrete proposals to us, one of which concerns an emergency plan for the temporary foreign worker program.
Have you seen that plan? Are you seriously considering those kinds of options?