Mr. Chair, speaking through you to the committee, we're here today to try to explain what is a very complex situation driven by a number of factors, both globally, in the context of a continental North American market, and in the context of thousands of decisions being made by retailers to set prices.
I'm certainly not able, here today, to predict where prices are going to go tomorrow, next week, or next year on a reliable basis. If I could predict the price of crude oil on a reliable basis, I think I'd be doing something else by this time in my career.
Yes, price volatility is clearly a difficult situation, and we understand Canadians' concerns with price volatility. But we're here today to try to contribute to knowledge of the complexity and the factors that ultimately drive prices and drive that volatility.