Thank you for your answer.
I agree with you on some issues. Climate change is not something new this year. We have been talking about it for some years, since 2015, according to Mr. Hardie. I am sure that we have been talking about it around this table since at least then, and that it has been much longer than that, in fact.
In reality, the department must be one of the first to have read about the repercussions of climate change we are seeing today. As a result, the word "predictability" is a fundamental, strategic word. It has to be at the forefront of what each of your employees in the department does. We are focused on it now, and we have the feeling that predictability does not seem to have been a factor in your department. We have seen this repeatedly on the part of the witnesses we have heard. I do not hold that against you, because you have not been in this department for very long.
However, based on the facts, I would reiterate that we are in a crisis. First, we have plants closing down. Workers are not coming in as planned. We have confirmation that in Quebec, the workers had been recognized and identified and were ready to come and work. We have to get down to this quickly, before more plants close. If that happens, it means people out of work who will not even be eligible for employment insurance. It will be over for some of them in a week.
I think we are in a crisis. The industry is calling for a crisis unit that you would be part of, along with the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, owners-operators and plants. You could work together on how to respond to the crisis. I would like to have an answer, please.