[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]He said it takes inexperienced Quebecers up to three times as long to do farm work compared to a migrant worker.
That meant he had to pay locals to do less work, eating into his profits.D’Aoust slashed production at his farm, Les Bontés de la Vallée, by 60 per cent this year because he and his wife figured they would only have migrant workers later in the harvest season.Two Guatemalan workers eventually made it on D’Aoust and Plante’s farm — but the financial damage to the business was done.