As I said earlier, COVID has certainly highlighted for us the importance of the need for more strategic discussions on how we can address the shortages in agricultural labour.
With our temporary foreign worker access, international workers have certainly been coming into this country for over half a century. We have multiple generations of workers that are incredibly important and vital to so many operations in every province across the country.
I think the producers have been given $1,500 to offset some of the costs of isolation. There have been frustrations with the isolation, with the delay in bringing people in and with the breakdown in communications. Unfortunately, I think a good deal of this is just the reality of COVID and how it's impacted every government in every country and every citizen of the world.
I think it's unfortunate that farmers have to bear the brunt of this. I fear, as Ms. Hatcher said, what the implications will be when we have our second wave as we go to harvest.