I work in food production, repairing and servicing automation in quality assurance. We are in every major manufacturer in many different markets such as French fries, potato chips, almonds, fruit and veggies.

We are seeing 3 issues. Not enough people to work in the plants to make the food. Not enough people for us to hire to go service machines. Too many travel restrictions for us to travel to other countries to fix machines.

We can’t risk sending people to Canada for a 3 day job, because they have to stay for weeks. So we can’t really support Canada at the moment. This goes for ALL engineering support, not just us. It’s the entire economy.

It’s pretty worrying. I don’t know how much more Canada can take before it becomes too difficult to reverse the damage. As bad as it is here, the economy in Canada is far far far worse.