Thank you.
We bring together all agricultural employers in Quebec. The Union des producteurs agricoles has 12 regional offices. In each of those offices, we have what we call an agricultural employment centre. The centres are funded in large part by the Government of Quebec under the Canada-Quebec workforce development agreements.
The priority in our regional offices, first and foremost, is Canadian, Quebec and local workers. As we know, there are not enough local workers to fill all the positions on farms. We therefore support employers in preparing temporary foreign worker applications.
Five years ago, as Mr. Doyon said, we also created the round table on temporary foreign agricultural workers, where all the government departments and everyone involved in the issue are represented. There are representatives of the workers, including people from RATTMAQ, people from the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, or UFCW, representatives from the Commission des normes, de l'équité, de la santé et de la sécurité du travail, or CNESST, people from the Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse, and representatives of federal departments such as Employment and Social Development Canada and Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. They participate at this table. It is a real forum.