Mr. Chair, I can start and perhaps Mr. Jurgutis would like to add to it.
You're absolutely right that early in the COVID-19 pandemic there were a number of highly visible cases. We have in mind the case in Quebec of Olymel, which had a major impact on the production and slaughter of hogs. Now there are very few.
In the meat sector, there are still a number of small-scale operations in certain parts of the country that have cases and are not functioning at their full capacity. However, in terms of hogs and beef, the slaughter process now is almost at full capacity. Of course, since certain operations were closed, there has been a backlog of animals in the supply, but there has been a catching up. Thanks to companies doing overtime, with additional shifts, they're able to catch up on that backlog, but it will take several months before we can catch up.
At no point did we find the situation was such that it would create a food security issue. It was more a question of maintaining the pipeline operation ongoing.