I understand what you are saying and that you have commented on that.
However, when the committee asks why your profits are up, almost every grocery retailer is telling us that their profits are being boosted by pharmacy sales rather than food sales. However, the committee does not have any details or numbers. We need that data. I think that we are reasonable people and that we can be trusted to treat that information with care and to respect its sensitive nature.
I am asking this question to all of the witnesses. Is there no way to put all of that data together and provide it to the committee so that we don't see the numbers for each company but just the numbers for all of the companies combined? Then, the committee members could evaluate it as parliamentarians in their role of protecting the public and information.
Would you be open to that idea?