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Agriculture committee That is an excellent example. As we have seen, labour shortages can have a direct effect on the availability of food. We have asked ourselves about the simplest solution that we could recommend to the government. In our opinion, it could quite easily make a few changes to two pi
February 14th, 2022Committee meeting
Jean-Michel Laurin
Agriculture committee That is an excellent question. Thanks for noting that we were able to bring 10 associations together. Actually, we're now up to 11 associations. This is a very important topic. In regard to the challenge in our industry, you're asking about a request to increase the cap to 30%.
February 14th, 2022Committee meeting
Jean-Michel Laurin
Agriculture committee Yes, we are. Actually, what we're asking for is a level playing field. On the production side, we know for temporary foreign workers who have come into our agriculture sector, those applications are processed more quickly. What we're looking for is to make sure that we also get
February 14th, 2022Committee meeting
Jean-Michel Laurin
Agriculture committee The idea there is to have a central place within the government to process our labour market impact assessment requests so that they develop expertise. They get applications from all sectors of the economy. We're thinking that if we can have a dedicated centre within ESDC to rev
February 14th, 2022Committee meeting
Jean-Michel Laurin
Agriculture committee My colleague from the Canadian Meat Council mentioned this earlier. There's nothing temporary about jobs in our industry. The idea there is to ensure that the foreign workers who come in, if they're willing to stay in Canada and if the employer is willing to sponsor them—we know
February 14th, 2022Committee meeting
Jean-Michel Laurin
Agriculture committee We know there have been influxes of refugees, such as recently from Afghanistan. We understand. It would be great to find a solution. We have these people coming to Canada looking to get into the labour market. We need people. The idea there is to basically bring these two togeth
February 14th, 2022Committee meeting
Jean-Michel Laurin
Agriculture committee I can't speak to this specifically. Some of my colleagues might be able to expand on it. I'll be honest. Labour is somewhat of a new issue for our association. We have been working on this for several months now. I know housing continues to be a challenge, but I can't speak to s
February 14th, 2022Committee meeting
Jean-Michel Laurin
Agriculture committee You mentioned the free trade agreements. In fact, the CPTPP is in force, but there are no imports related to our products yet. The new agreement with the United States will come into effect on July 1. It is important that the tariff rate quotas that will be granted under these ag
May 29th, 2020Committee meeting
Jean-Michel Laurin
Agriculture committee We don't have one. As a result of negotiating these agreements, we were promised programs. In a working group that we had participated in, a number of ideas were exchanged. We had two main demands. The first was to have a program that would facilitate the modernization of the pla
May 29th, 2020Committee meeting
Jean-Michel Laurin
Agriculture committee I would just add one more point that we put forward to the government. Several of our members began, as early as late February and early March, to put up plexiglass screens to separate employees as a security measure. We were told that expenses would only be eligible if they were
May 29th, 2020Committee meeting
Jean-Michel Laurin
Agriculture committee Good afternoon, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. My name is Jean-Michel Laurin, and I'm president and CEO of the Canadian Poultry and Egg Processors Council, CPEPC, or CCTOV in French. I'm joined today by our board chair, Mr. Joël Cormier, who is also senior vice-presiden
May 29th, 2020Committee meeting
Jean-Michel Laurin