Thank you, Madam Chair.
My first questions will go to Mr. Meinema.
Earlier you had mentioned the thin margins that some of the stores are reporting, and the need for systemic change. As an example, my riding here is 77,000 square kilometres in size. I have something like 140 different communities within the riding. They're all very small towns. A lot of these individual small towns have their own grocery stores. The margins are so thin that if there were a mandated minimum wage increase from, let's say, where we are now to $15 an hour, I've had most of those store owners tell me that they would have to fire all their employees and work longer and more hours themselves, as the store owners, because they literally could not afford it.
How do we address that issue and that concern going forward?