Madam Chair, at $40,000, the Canadian emergency business account is proving insufficient for livestock producers. For example, one pork farmer told me that even if he could qualify for CEBA, it would buy him feed for his hogs for maybe two days. Hog prices themselves have crashed by 20% since March 25, as COVID-19 is disrupting supply chains.
The risk of a supply chain failure increases as this pandemic drags on. Is the government going to announce a program geared specifically to agriculture?