Okay. Fair enough.
I have been hearing a lot of defensiveness from your sector. I understand. Many companies are going through difficult times with the war in Ukraine, supply chain issues and climate change. At this committee we're all very familiar with those subjects. Many different sectors have been going through those same pressures. However, when I hear your defence that your profit margins really aren't that great, I have to counter that, when I look at the statistics, for the grocery sector as a whole, in the last prepandemic year, 2019, the sector as a whole had roughly $2.4 billion in profit. In 2021, that went up to $5.8 billion.
My constituents in Cowichan—Malahat—Langford are looking at figures like that. They are looking at the food prices they pay week to week. You're saying you're really not responsible for this when, in fact, the net profits are showing a different story.