Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Good afternoon, everyone.
I want to say to Ms. Bédard and Ms. Laurin that I found their testimony heart-wrenching. Their testimony was about sugar bushes, reception halls, the reality of self-employed workers and the fact that the programs provided during the pandemic were poorly adapted to reality, to put it mildly. The least we can say is that their testimony was really touching. I hope their members will manage to overcome the terrible crisis they are going through.
My first questions are for Ms. Laurin.
Going from 240 sugar shacks to fewer than 140 has a devastating effect. As you mentioned, last year, you mobilized $300,000 in goods. That money was lost, as receptions and weddings were not held during the summer. The season was lost. The scenario is the same for the second year: everything is being lost.
I would like to know whether the measures and criteria implemented meet the needs of your members and of your sugar shack.