Thank you so much, Chair.
Thank you to our witnesses for helping guide our committee through this study.
I'm going to open this question up to a comment from each of you. Could you each take a minute to comment?
This study that we're doing has some obvious parallels to the processing study this committee did in the previous Parliament. I was going through some of the witness testimony during that study, particularly on the issue of labour.
We had the United Food and Commercial Workers union appear before our committee during that study. When it came to labour, they were talking about the fact that maybe there were not quite enough efforts being made to link enough Canadians to the openings that existed in the sector. I know that temporary foreign workers for sure are necessary. We can see that, but I think the UFCW wanted to see a more established forum into which we could bring labour, industry, educational institutions and government. I think there used to be something called a sectoral program, which was discontinued about a decade ago.
I'm just wondering if each of you could comment on whether we need to bring back some kind of a forum that includes those four groups so that there are regular conversations.