Madam Speaker, obviously, agriculture, agri-food and processing are very important sectors in my region. We have a lot of temporary foreign workers in the agri-food processing sector.
I think we need to better define the categories of workers we want to have. My riding was home to an Olymel slaughterhouse, which shut down about a year ago, affecting over 900 workers, including roughly 200 foreign workers. It is not that we do not have a labour supply of our own, but clearly, those folks were willing to come and work in our slaughterhouses.
I think we just need to be careful. We are talking about our food supply. I think that, as Canadians, we need to feed Canada first. If we want to feed our own population properly, we have to be able to process products locally. Because there are not enough Quebec and Canadian workers in our ridings, we still need temporary foreign workers. The categories need to be very clearly defined.