Okay, very good. Thank you for that clarification.
Your recommendation in 6.29 talks about confirming whether or not the subsidy that is being issued through nutrition north is actually reaching the intended recipients, which would be the consumers or the end users of the products that are being purchased under the program. The last part of the recommendation says that:
...retailers must provide all the information on eligible items, including current profit margins and profit margins over time, to determine whether the retailers are passing on the full subsidy to consumers.
I believe that's important, that we can confirm the subsidy is being passed on to the consumers. That's the intent of the program.
But I'm wondering about the whole issue of transparency of profit margins by the retailers. I'm wondering if you can expand on that a little bit. I think you're working with three major retailers in the north that account for about 80% of the program volume. Would making their profit margins transparent actually compromise the competitiveness of these firms or even the integrity of the program?