Madam Brisebois, turning to the comments you made earlier about training and turnover rates, I'd like to explore that a little more. Certainly people who work in the retail sector who are at the bottom end of the scale, if they don't like a particular workplace, can leave and go someplace else, because they're not giving up a lot.
I know with some of the small retailers in my community...I'll take a Home Hardware, for example, that's owner-operated. They do invest in a lot of training, and their pay scales are higher, and there are people who work there for decades. How can the federal government assist retailers to develop that kind of investment in their employees that adds value to the retail operators and reduces the turnover rate? I obviously know that wages and working conditions are part of it, but I also know there are other factors as well.