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Agriculture committee  I don't necessarily want to compare us to our neighbours. Instead, I'm going to talk about the help that is available in Canada right now. We talked about the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy, which covers 75% of a company's wages. In terms of our company, we have lost over 40% of

May 15th, 2020Committee meeting

Philippe Blondin

Agriculture committee  I can answer you. For Wallaceburg, I can give you an idea. We did an open house at the beginning of last summer in 2019, and in two days we had 600 people show up to give their resumés for a job. It was very interesting in that region. We were told before we were sent there that

May 15th, 2020Committee meeting

Philippe Blondin

Agriculture committee  It's difficult, because I think there was a real need for people to get some money if they lost their job. In our case, it was not necessarily people losing their job; it's people who.... I don't want to interpret everything, but we know for a fact that in some cases people are j

May 15th, 2020Committee meeting

Philippe Blondin

Agriculture committee  I can give two bits of information on this. Number one is that a lot of our customers are still not open, so it's very hard to contact them or to get any payment. We're following that closely. We expect that the bad debts will probably be pretty high. We have a lot of companies

May 15th, 2020Committee meeting

Philippe Blondin

Agriculture committee  With regard to the supply from growers in Ontario, so far the only thing we've changed is that we've had to buy smaller-sized cucumbers. We've cancelled some contracts with pepper growers, because we're carrying some excess inventory that we cannot afford to replace right now. I

May 15th, 2020Committee meeting

Philippe Blondin