Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to our witnesses for being here today.
I want to echo what Mr. Epp said in his opening comments. This program is instrumental for our agri-food industry, and it's important to get this right to protect vulnerable populations like temporary foreign workers.
I want to focus on the accommodations for temporary foreign workers. Given multiple media reports and public outcries, and even a commitment by the department back in 2018 to address the lacking minimum standards for housing accommodations nationally, two years later, during the midst of the pandemic, there were still multiple reports of troubling conditions. It's now been four years.
Mr. Tremblay, can the department name one single national standard that has now been established for this program, when it comes to accommodation standards for temporary foreign workers?