Thank you, Dean. I'll keep it really short.
I am a contractor here in the city of Toronto, and I also serve as the human resource chair for the CNLA. I can't add a whole lot to what our executive director, Victor, has already said—and he has done a great job. I can tell you that we are a very progressive group.
I would point out that we're the only group in agriculture that collects and remits millions and millions of dollars of GST every year, so we're not looking for a handout. What we're looking for is some cooperation with HRSDC, and we're looking to try to see if we can work with the seasonality issues.
I know that both this government and the former government were looking for ways of dealing with the seasonality problems, but I think we need to be a bit more aggressive. We need to start doing a little bit more training. Rather than trying to push people into year-round occupations that don't serve any of us, we need to start working at training these people in the off-season so that they become more employable, so that they make more money, so that it's a win-win-win situation.
Thank you.