Thank you very much.
Thank you to all the witnesses for being here, and I'll give a special congratulations to Ms. Hendricks. It's great seeing you in this role.
I noticed in the testimony of Mr. Macdonald and Ms. Hendricks that there was a different conclusion reached about the profits of the large retail chains. We've been conducting this study for quite a while now and listening to many witnesses. There seems to be a lack of transparency with the numbers.
One of the witnesses, Mr. Martin Caron, the general president of the Union des producteurs agricoles, talked about a consultant body in France that was established to basically look at the price of agricultural goods at the production, processing and retail stages. I'm not sure if you're familiar with it.
I was wondering what your opinions are, Mr. Macdonald and Ms. Hendricks, on having something like that in Canada so we can have greater clarity on where these price increases are coming from and who is benefiting and who is not.