Thank you for that question.
The reality is that the demographic is switching. We see in our general scheme that we're now up to over one-fifth who are full-time employees. They've done everything fairly well: They've secured employment, they're working hard to feed their families and they're still not making it.
For food banks especially, it's a double whammy, because the demand is increasing, but our food prices aren't the same as they were two years ago. The can of soup that we could get with our relationship and was 49¢ two years ago is 99¢ today. Not only do we have a demand challenge for food banks; we also have a price increase in providing that. When milk goes up by 5¢ a litre, everyone goes, “Oh man, 5¢ a litre—that's awful.” Well, we buy at least 4,000 litres every month and sometimes more. That demand increase has a big impact.
The number of children we're serving is slightly up—32% to 33%. As we see more working families, we're probably going to expect that to continue to rise, because working families often have children at home, and they're struggling. We're also seeing an increase in our number of seniors, of people who are living on a retirement fixed income and are finding that the resources do not stretch as far as they used to stretch, which is very difficult, obviously, for someone who has worked their whole life, had a good career and is in retirement. They're not really needing to go back to work, but they're feeling that they're having a hard time stretching things. We are seeing demographic changes, and we'll probably continue to see that as long as the inflation levels stay as high as they are, because it's just a challenge to deal with.