It affects the independent grocers, but what is really important is how it affects the customers of those independent grocers. I thank you for that question, because it's a really important one for this country.
As I said in my opening remarks, we have about 6,900 independent grocers. A lot of them are in rural and remote communities where costs and costs of transportation are higher. If there are unilateral price freezes or discounts being imposed on suppliers, the natural question that I hope everyone on this committee asks is this: What does that mean for all Canadians?
Again, independent grocers don't have the leverage to make those same price requests, so where does that leave our customers in those communities? Many of them would be in the constituencies of all the members of this committee. It puts those consumers.... The independent grocers have a competitive disadvantage, but it means that you're having price stability for some Canadians and not all Canadians. That's why it's such a good question. I think that everyone should be very concerned about that.