Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you to all the witnesses. I would also like to thank my colleagues for inviting me to be here this morning.
Mr. Larkin, very quickly, I just want to say hello for Stéphanie Poitras and Vincent Breton. They're major pork processors in my riding, people who are well respected for the work they do. They also provide a lot of jobs.
If I may, I'd like to start with some questions for Mr. Trottier.
Mr. Trottier, I'm the member for Côte‑du‑Sud—Rivière‑du‑Loup—Kataskomiq—Témiscouata, and you're at the Quebec City plant. If I understand correctly, you weren't necessarily involved with the Rivière-du-Loup mill, which unfortunately closed its doors last fall, but it was under your company's management. It went bankrupt. If I understand correctly, each of the entities in your company is independent. There were 190 jobs there, and now they're gone, unfortunately. That mill had been there for 60 years.
What were the biggest challenges you faced in Rivière‑du‑Loup? I know that you also considered the possibility of changing the machinery like you ended up doing in Quebec City. Why do you think that wasn't possible in Rivière‑du‑Loup?