It's an excellent question.
We are calling on the federal government to help establish the framework that the provinces and territories can adopt, so that there's a consistent implementation of a grocery code of conduct that is ultimately enforceable across the country.
We think that the federal role is a key role in determining basically the ability to control price inflation for the consumer and to protect our industry and our primary producers who ultimately produce the food that ends up on grocery store shelves. Without that protection, without that grocery code of conduct, we are left to face and fight independently with large grocery retailers that have an enormous imbalance of power over our industry.
If our industry, which represents about 7,000 processing plants and 290,000 direct manufacturing jobs in Canada, is not protected and allowed to grow at the same pace, that will ultimately affect farm gate output and the ability of farmers to get their product to market as well.