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.

　　布魯斯·科克倫(Bruce Cochrane)寫(xiě)道，加拿大曼尼托巴省豬肉生產(chǎn)商們希望，加拿大農(nóng)業(yè)部長(zhǎng)們?cè)谙轮芤黄鹩懻撔碌霓r(nóng)業(yè)政策框架計(jì)劃時(shí)，把勞動(dòng)力作為重要問(wèn)題之一去討論。上個(gè)月，曼尼托巴省農(nóng)產(chǎn)品組織的代表們與省農(nóng)業(yè)部長(zhǎng)Ralph Eichler會(huì)面，幫助他在下周的紐芬蘭島圣約翰斯召開(kāi)的聯(lián)邦、省、地區(qū)農(nóng)業(yè)部長(zhǎng)會(huì)議上，做好準(zhǔn)備。曼尼托巴省豬肉協(xié)會(huì)主席George Matheson在現(xiàn)場(chǎng)代表本省的養(yǎng)豬業(yè)工人表示，生產(chǎn)商與加工商正在不斷掙扎，填補(bǔ)農(nóng)場(chǎng)與加工場(chǎng)中的空缺崗位，他們想要看到臨時(shí)外籍勞工計(jì)劃做出的改變，讓勞動(dòng)力資源得到最大利用。