Finance committee  The carbon tax is becoming a big issue for our farms. Like I mentioned, we go 365 days a year. That means our buildings have climate-controlled facilities. They use a lot of gas. They use a lot of electricity—very efficiently, however. The costs from the carbon tax are weighing o

Finance committee  Partly it's because we grow 365 days a year, but we also have a large workforce, including temporary foreign workers. That puts us in a position that's unique to temporary foreign worker programs. Traditionally, they're under the seasonal ag worker program. To answer the questio

Finance committee  Essentially what we're looking for is a cash infusion into our industry in any way that they can at this point. Our request is for the $6.5 million that we have already experienced as a loss or cost to the industry. If they could provide that to our industry by any means that the

Finance committee  Thanks for this opportunity to speak on behalf of the great Canadian mushroom industry. We contribute $1 billion to the Canadian economy and create 4,000 jobs. We employ 900 workers from the temporary foreign worker program agricultural stream for jobs that we advertise on an o