As chairman of CAAR, I own and operate an agri-retail facility in British Columbia. One of the concerns that we have, as retailers, is that we see this increasing regulatory burden coming at us. Given the lean margins and the extremely difficult year we had, these kinds of security upgrades are being put off. Our concern is that something could happen in the future to force these changes upon agri-retailers. If that happens, many people will not be able to bear those costs.
On October 29th, 2009. See this statement in context.