Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Medline, for joining us today.
I think one of the hard things about the food inflation crisis over the last 23 months has been just how many people with solid full-time jobs have been struggling to put food on the table and have been using food banks. I think that's a very detrimental record for our country.
Some of those workers also include workers who work at your stores. I think that if we are to talk about food price inflation and efforts that are being made to combat it, we also need to talk about the workers who work at Sobeys.
I've been in contact with some of the striking workers at Pete's Frootique—which is owned by your company—in Atlantic Canada. They've been on strike since mid-November. Many of those employees have stated that they themselves are unable to afford the food prices at the store where they work.
I guess I'd like to hear from you—and I think, indeed, many Canadians and the workers who are at your stores would like to hear from you—on this: How is it that many Canadian families can afford to shop at Sobeys when your own employees cannot?