Agriculture committee  We don't necessarily want... We expect tangible solutions from the government so that the trade relationship can resume as soon as possible. In some cases, when conflicts last weeks or months, it becomes very heavy financially, not only for Olymel, but for the rest of the compa

Agriculture committee  Yes.

Agriculture committee  Of course, butchering pigs is quite complex. So the task could be segmented. In some cases, the notion of specialized locations can make sense. This is neither impossible nor incompatible with the need to robotize or automate production for reasons of efficiency or output. Thes

Agriculture committee  As members of the Canadian Meat Council.... Obviously, there are different committees in place where a lot of common challenges are tabled and where common practices and learning are shared so that we can better ourselves as an industry, whether it's from a hygiene perspective or

Agriculture committee  Obviously, as I mentioned, as a company we put up about $40 million of different equipment to improve worker safety, more so in the context of COVID. However, I would suspect that some of these measures that we put in place will become permanent and will be there, and that we put

Agriculture committee  Being in the industry for over 30 years, I've seen some countries develop a lot more quickly than other countries. When I think of pork, I think of Denmark, which has included and implemented a lot of automation and robotics into their operations at all levels, in the context of

Agriculture committee  In some cases, automation and robotics will certainly eliminate work stations. However, our industry still involves a great deal of customer-specific and product-specific work. We don’t work with equal components. Birds and pigs come in different forms. We shouldn’t lose sight of

Agriculture committee  Yes, that's right. Whether it's tax credits or any other form of support, it would help us speed up the process. It's not just the equipment that needs to be considered, but also the reconfiguraton of production sites. There are major investments involved in moving walls and erec

Agriculture committee  Yes, we've obviously.... We don't have many operations, for instance, in Montreal directly, but we do have a couple of plants that are within, say, an hour's drive of Montreal. We've used those contractors to support some of our needs for labour.

Agriculture committee  The sites that we have that rely on these contractors have not been exposed to any surge of infections or anything. They've been relatively under control for the past 10 to 11 months, so I can't relate it to that.

Agriculture committee  It's close to 30%.

Agriculture committee  That's right—on the hog side, on the pork side.

Agriculture committee  As I mentioned earlier in my comments, if everything goes well with the workers and the number of infected going down—and we expect it's going to go down very rapidly—we have an opening window of getting back to normal, at least back to operation, sometime in the course of next w

Agriculture committee  As I mentioned, we have important hog operations in Saskatchewan that supply over 50% of the Red Deer facility volume. We're confronted with that. A few days will be tough, but it will be manageable. It's when you start getting into 10 days to two weeks that it starts to become a

Agriculture committee  As you say, it's very competitive. As I mentioned, we have been handling this and operating, basically, quite free of any disruption since March in Red Deer. We had a couple of close calls, but obviously we've put in all the proper measures within the plant. Obviously, we try t