Thank you, Mr. Chair. I appreciate that.
I want to thank all of the witnesses for being here today. It's an important discussion.
Ms. Ventin, I want to pick up where my colleague left off. You mentioned the word “absenteeism” twice. You also talked about supply chain disruptions, labour gaps and increased costs. All of that really has to do with workforce shortages. We're speaking about the health and safety of our workers. In this pandemic, there are a lot of measures taken and a lot of support from the federal government to make sure that workers are there and can get to work and keep going. Thank you to everyone in the entire supply chain for making sure that we had food throughout this, all throughout the supply chain.
Can you expand on some of the lessons we learned, especially in the processing system with congregate employees? How can we make sure that moving on, when this pandemic is done, we can still protect the health and safety of workers? As you said, up to 20% of people being absent is an extreme cost to you. It will disrupt supply chains, and that's a problem. What can we learn from the lessons from the past two years? How can we protect the health and safety of workers?