Mr. Speaker, fruit and vegetable growers who are bringing in international farm workers for the 2021 growing season are being asked to wait on phone lines with hundreds and thousands of people, and to wait for nurses contracted by the government to supervise their COVID-19 tests at day 10. If they get through, once the tests are complete, they are required to forward them to the lab by Purolator courier.
This just in: Purolator does not serve many parts of rural Canada and, where it is available, it does not work on the weekends.
Will the government give fruit and vegetable growers a workable solution for getting farm workers to work?