Ms. McInturff, Ms. Lahey, I also thought, when I saw you among the chemists and people from the gas industry and businessmen, that it was arranged wrong, but ultimately I decided it was a good thing, that your testimony would do them good, as it would the government. If there is one field where it is a champion, both domestically and on the international scene, it's in the area of reinforcing harmful stereotypes about the status of women. In any event, I want to thank you for coming to testify before us.
You will understand that I am going to address my remarks mainly to the people from Lebel-sur-Quévillon. When a plant is closed in Sainte-Thérèse or in Boisbriand, it is torn down, they build a shopping centre, and that's the end of it. But when a plant is closed in an isolated single-industry town like yours, we see what happens.
You are here with Mr. Bouchard, who owns a convenience store. I wonder, Mr. Bouchard, whether you have been reduced to giving your customers credit. It must be difficult to be the owner of a convenience store in Lebel-sur-Quévillon. How does the situation look to the owner of an SME in a town like that?