Citizenship and Immigration committee  I can answer that quickly. Yes, in actual fact, CAHRC already has partnerships with certain sectors of the agricultural industry, whereby the employer can provide that training, in many different languages, to their employees, whether they're temporary foreign workers or workin

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm sorry again. Yes, we already had those sorts of tools available through CAHRC for farmers to upgrade the skills of and provide those skills to their employees, whether Canadian or not, and to help them move up. This is available in some commodities in the Canadian agricultu

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The pilot seems to be working, so if you want to expand it to other partners and other provinces, then that would be a good thing, rather than just restricting it to agri-food or agriculture.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I guess it could be with ESDC or with CAHRC, for example, which represents a sector, or another sort of group that represents a sector, if that's the will of the government. CAHRC, for example, has great credibility in the sector with governments all across the country, so for ag

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm going to be biased and say that the agriculture and agri-food one should become permanent. That's the sector I work in—and so does Mr. Chambers—and that's what CAHRC serves across the country, so I would say that would be a good idea. Ms. Lehal mentioned that ESDC could help

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It would be a good idea to raise that limit, especially in areas where there's low unemployment, but also in areas of high unemployment. The reality is that in animal processing or food processing, there are shortages in many parts of the country. There's lots of unemployment as

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would add that this is very true, but it's not only that. For example, in Mr. Dhaliwal's riding, we have seafood processing plants that are probably going to be closed. Most of the folks there have become Canadians or permanent residents, and they're very well paid.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, and the labour force.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. My name is Cyr Couturier, and I'm the chair of the Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council. I'm an aquaculture scientist and chair of the aquaculture programs at Memorial University, as well as the director on many industry associations, including the Canadian F

Agriculture committee  I'll answer that question, because I sit on the Canadian Federation of Agriculture board, as well as CAHRC. I don't think they're better off now with the support programs that are out there. Mushroom folks have already said that the AgriStability is not applicable. We know that

Agriculture committee  There has already been some breakage in the distribution channels initially. It's starting to come back up, but there's still a dire need for production, for farmers to be able to get their crops off the fields, or out of the ocean in my case, because I also work with seafood far

Agriculture committee  I'll ask Portia, our executive director, to answer that one.

Agriculture committee  Thank you for the invitation to participate. During COVID, obviously, employers have been struggling with extensive uncertainty about meeting their staffing needs. They have been uncertain about operating realities during the pandemic and about getting their foreign workers into