Thank you.
Some retailers are actually saying that relative to the onset of COVID earlier this year, things are almost back to normal now, yet, of course, the data we're seeing shows that infection rates are rising. We're in the middle of a second wave that actually may be more traumatic than the first.
With the recent announcements of record profits by several of the major retailers and the costs that are being shoved downstream to the suppliers, as well as the loss of pandemic pay to retail workers—all of these capital expansion costs are being pushed down—what are the consequences of this dynamic? Our goal here is to actually increase processing capacity in Canada. That's the direction of the Barton report. That's the goal of this study. Is there actually a risk of contraction, and if so, what could be the implications for rural Canada?