Here's one of the challenges when it comes to a bigger company. Take a company like Loblaw. They have 250-plus stores, so if you're selling them strawberries, you have to sell them enough for their 250 stores. If Ontario were bringing in strawberries and could bring in enough for these two weeks at 150 stores, how is the corporate Loblaw going to say that 150 stores can get strawberries but the other 100 stores can't? As companies get bigger, that does end up shortening our local season with those stores, because we have to meet the demand of the whole corporation.
On March 24th, 2015. See this statement in context.