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Agriculture committee The day that the pandemic is over and there is a vaccine or something like that, we think we can get back to the same level of production that we had. Meanwhile, it's going to be hard. There are places where we needed to reduce production in order to ensure worker safety. In othe
May 29th, 2020Committee meeting
Joël Cormier
Agriculture committee That's an excellent question. As we said, the first thing we want to ensure as an organization is worker safety, and that's all of our members. As Mr. McAlpine mentioned, there will be a lot of sharing of information among all members about the stuff they did to improve. At t
May 29th, 2020Committee meeting
Joël Cormier
Agriculture committee I will let Mr. Laurin answer your question.
May 29th, 2020Committee meeting
Joël Cormier
Agriculture committee Thank you for your question, Mr. Perron. Member companies of the Canadian Poultry and Egg Processors Council are not eligible for the Canada emergency wage subsidy. This is because our sales have not declined enough as the supply of eggs and poultry has always been there, while
May 29th, 2020Committee meeting
Joël Cormier
Agriculture committee That is true.
May 29th, 2020Committee meeting
Joël Cormier
Agriculture committee That's a good question, Mr. Lehoux. The $77 million that is allocated to the entire agri-food industry is clearly not enough, given the $87 million that we mentioned for the poultry sector alone. I heard this week about some parameters that will guide the allocation of the $77 m
May 29th, 2020Committee meeting
Joël Cormier
Agriculture committee Thank you, Mr. Laurin. Mr. Chair and honourable members, thank you for giving us the opportunity to appear before you today to brief you on our industry's response to the COVID-19 crisis and on what we are doing to meet the expectations of the government and Canadians. I want t
May 29th, 2020Committee meeting
Joël Cormier