Agriculture committee  It increases [Inaudible].

Agriculture committee  You're right.

Agriculture committee  I don't know if I expressed myself well. I was talking about unskilled jobs. I used those words to refer to the employees in our processing chain. Usually these employees don't necessarily have a specialty and we train them ourselves. We don't have the same problem with employee

Agriculture committee  Yes. Under normal circumstances, when a slaughterhouse is fully staffed, the entire duck is recovered. This includes offal, feathers and anything inedible. In the case of a duck, this includes the tongue and legs. Everything is recovered. When we are short of manpower, unfortuna

Agriculture committee  Much of them are taken up by the export market for insulation, coats and pillows, among other things. The duck feather is undeniably the best feather there is. The Canadian feather in particular is recognized worldwide as one of the best. It is better than the American feather.

Agriculture committee  As you probably know, in 2016, we were lucky, or unlucky, to have to build a completely new plant with all the new technologies. So we are fortunate to have the most modern plant in Canada and the best processes in the world. These are mainly European technologies. That's how we'

Agriculture committee  Yes.

Agriculture committee  I agree with Mr. Falk on this. Once again, it is often a matter of enforcing regulations and applying the same standards to our products as to imported products.

Agriculture committee  That's right. We do our own studies and we have also commissioned independent third parties to do them, and we have indeed found that some products on the market could never have left our plant.

Agriculture committee  I know that the industry strongly advocates a 20% limit. It seems to be a widespread demand, because it is a rule that applies to a large majority of companies. For our part, the fact that we are in the regions exacerbates our problem. I've discussed this with people in the indus

Agriculture committee  Our problems are mostly related to processing plants. When you talk about production, I imagine you're talking about animal production, right?

Agriculture committee  This problem was solved several years ago. As you may know, there is no mandatory limit on the amount of farm labour. This problem has been solved once and for all. We have a lot of foreign workers, but it's not the same program as the one for industrial workers.

Agriculture committee  Processing costs have increased everywhere. Earlier, I made a lot of reference to environmental and animal welfare requirements, which have become very important, especially in the last two years. This requires additional monitoring and facilities from the farm to the processing

Agriculture committee  Good afternoon. Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. My name is Philip O'Shaughnessy and I am the general manager of Canards du Lac Brome ltée. Our company began operations almost 110 years ago. We have several farms and two processing plants. Our main site is loc