Thank you, Mr. Stanford.
I'm going to load up two questions here, just in the interest of time.
You stated in your handout and your opening remarks that the carbon tax absolutely pales in comparison with the profits in the oil and gas sector as a driver of inflation. In previous handouts, you've shown that oil and gas, over the last three years, has seen net profits increase by over 1,000%.
Can you extrapolate, from those massive profits in oil and gas, how that's affected food prices? I think we need to look a little upstream.
Also, I noticed you wrote a bit in your handout about how even executives in the grocery retail sector are doing stock buybacks and dividend payouts. I have a friend back in my riding of Cowichan-Malahat-Langford who's looked at the financials of oil and gas. He noted the oil and gas sector has shifted to a capital-discipline, flat-growth and high-shareholder-return strategy. They too are using their massive profits not to reinvest in industry or pay the Canadian people but to send to shareholders. Those are the primary beneficiaries.
Do you see correlations in the grocery retail sector?