CANADA - Manitoba's pork producers are hoping labour will be among the key issues discussed next week when Canada's agriculture ministers gather to discuss plans the next Agricultural Policy framework, reports Bruce Cochrane.Last month representatives of Manitoba's agricultural commodity groups met with provincial Agriculture Minister Ralph Eichler to provide input in preparation for next week's Federal Provincial Territorial Agriculture Ministers meeting in St. John's, Newfoundland.George Matheson, the Chair of Manitoba Pork, on hand to represent the province's pork industry says producers and processors are constantly struggling to fill positions on farms and in processing plants in the province and they would like to see changes made to the Temporary Foreign Workers Programme to allow greater utilization of that labour pool.
布鲁斯·科克伦(Bruce Cochrane)写道，加拿大曼尼托巴省猪肉生产商们希望，加拿大农业部长们在下周一起讨论新的农业政策框架计划时，把劳动力作为重要问题之一去讨论。上个月，曼尼托巴省农产品组织的代表们与省农业部长Ralph Eichler会面，帮助他在下周的纽芬兰岛圣约翰斯召开的联邦、省、地区农业部长会议上，做好准备。曼尼托巴省猪肉协会主席George Matheson在现场代表本省的养猪业工人表示，生产商与加工商正在不断挣扎，填补农场与加工场中的空缺岗位，他们想要看到临时外籍劳工计划做出的改变，让劳动力资源得到最大利用。
