Not only does it provide a market o

Not only does it provide a market outlet for thelivestock producers but it provides a market outlet forgrain growers who sell feed grains to the livestockindustry. We have 65,000 workers, according toStatistics Canada, in the meat packing and processingindustry and, for every job that's on a production line ina meat plant, a study done by the University ofSaskatchewan suggests there are at least another fourjobs in the economy.These other jobs could be on the farm; they could be inthe service sector; they could be in transportation; theycould be in marketing. So even when we have 1,000jobs available in the meat industry that are unfilled onthe line in the plant it means there're at least 4,000 jobselsewhere in the economy that aren't going filled. So ithas an impact on our jobs; it has an impact on thelivestock producers; it has an impact on the grainfarmers; it has a major impact on our ruralcommunities; it has a significant impact on our exportsand it certainly has an impact on the ability