Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Beauchamp, I think you've touched on this in an exchange with other colleagues. Looking at the plant in question in Vallée-Jonction, there's a very significant cluster of primary producers of pork farms in the region. They of course now have a timeline to adapt to a plant closure. I know this plant was taking hogs from as far away as Ontario. It's not all regionally based and locally produced pork.
With that being said, primary producers have to adapt to a significant closure. How does Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, in your view, step in to work with these primary producers when one of your plants closes? Ultimately our committee wants to address a letter to the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. They may have to deal with increased transportation costs. Some of them may have to go into other areas of farming because there's a surplus. Can you just expand on that a little bit more?