I appreciate your stating that on the record because we often get crickets when it comes to critically looking at this. I think more voices such as yours are needed in this conversation to really juxtapose what Canadian families are going through. Where is their hard-earned income going? Where is it actually ending up?
Mr. Chair, out of respect to my committee members, I want to take the opportunity in this final minute to read a notice of motion into the record. I will respect my committee members' time and move it in the second hour.
I'm going to read into the record the following motion: “That the committee expand the study on Food Price Inflation by increasing the number of meetings in the motion adopted on Wednesday, October 5, 2022 to at least 6 meetings; that the committee summon the Chief Executive Officers and Presidents of Loblaw...Metro...and Empire...to appear before the committee; that the committee invite additional witnesses to provide testimony and that the parties shall each provide to the clerk of the committee, by 4:00 p.m. EST on Tuesday, February 28, 2023, their lists of additional witnesses, who the Chair shall schedule in a manner that is fair to all parties.”
Mr. Chair, that's on the record now as a notice. I'll move it in the second hour. This just gives colleagues an opportunity to look at it and make a determination.
Thank you.