Yes, quickly.
First, absolutely, the need to rationalize and sort out the mandates of multiples agencies is critical to the whole process. But for us, if there were a single thing.... Our submission lists several things we would recommend on program design and administration, but at this point, the single biggest issue and frustration we have is processing times in Alberta. There's a huge backlog. We have plants in Lethbridge and two in Edmonton.
I think what's important to understand is that it's not just a question of the workers or whether we have them or not; there's a whole series of spin-offs or of negative consequences that result from the labour shortage when you can't fill those jobs. Productivity in the plant suffers. The other workers suffer, because they're working extra overtime, they're stressed, they're trying to maintain a plant environment where they simply don't have the help they need. Product quality suffers. Animal welfare suffers—because we're dealing with live animals, you need the people to properly manage the system. Farmers suffer, because now the plant isn't operating to take their animals in a sequence that we would normally want. And the community suffers.
So it's more than just us as an individual employer.