Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
Thank you very much to the witnesses for your very powerful testimony. I know I speak on behalf of all my colleagues and Canadians in general when I say we owe a great debt of gratitude to essential workers during these very difficult times.
Even before this pandemic, I think the topic of living wages was problematic, let alone at a time like this when a lot of employees have a lot of concerns.
I'll start off with Mr. Dias.
In response to my colleague MP Jowhari, you said that your union had received no heads-up that they were phasing out the wage increases.
If we take it back one step further, throughout this difficult process during this pandemic, was management at these grocery stores in touch with you as to how to put in safeguards? It seems to me that workers would know much better what needs to be done than management. Were they ever in touch with you with respect to what safeguards to put in place?