Finance committee  CADAP has been a board member of CAHRC since its founding in 2006, as a non-voting member. We really need to get the word out that there are some really good jobs in agriculture. It's not what people traditionally think. There are some very high-tech jobs. I was going to make the

Finance committee  Do I have an hour to answer the question?

Finance committee  That's fairly broad, but thanks for the question. It's really critical. One of the challenges we face as farmers is that the Canadians we would like to employ typically do not live where the farms are. That's one of the first challenges we have. We don't have a lot of people av

Finance committee  Thank you, Portia. A number of industry leaders have come forward to create Canada's national labour task force. Together with the support of CAHRC, they have researched and documented an agriculture and agrifood workforce action plan. It includes very clear short-, medium-, and

Human Resources committee  Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chair and members, for inviting the Agriculture and Agri-Food Labour Task Force to participate in your temporary foreign worker program review. I am a farmer from Elgin County, Ontario. I’m the chair of the Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council