Thanks for your question.
Consumers would definitely view healthy relations between suppliers and retailers as a positive.
At the request of the federal, provincial and territorial departments, we worked for two and a half years to establish a dialogue in order to develop a retailer code of conduct and industry good practices. That work was done with considerable maturity and extensive dialogue.
We talked to each other, eyeball to eyeball, and, to the satisfaction of the ministers, managed to present a code of conduct that, in our humble opinion, will serve the interests of everyone in the country.
However, one industry actor in particular came and said he didn't agree. The consultation process took two and a half years, but, at the last minute, someone said he didn't agree and didn't want to be part of the process. That attitude is simply unacceptable.