If we take groceries as an example, just as a practical matter we can kind of focus on one industry, and I would say that competition reforms were seen as an important step.
There has been work, as members know, on the grocery code of conduct to try to really mediate behaviour among the players in the supply chain. We think that the consumer sector and consumer advocacy in Canada have been an area that frankly hasn't had a lot of attention in many years—decades, in fact.
The ministry has made a fairly sizable reinvestment in the consumer rights and agenda side of the ledger. There's been a very significant increase in support for consumer groups. The minister has had a number of meetings with consumer groups in order to be out there basically shining a light on bad practices, naming and shaming and turning up the heat around consumer issues.
We have been working with the provincial governments. We've had a first meeting of ministers on this topic. There have been a number of meetings of senior officials. I have to say that it's been many years—I don't have the date—since consumer affairs ministers and senior officials have had these regular series of meetings.
I wouldn't claim that all of that has changed everything. It's just to say that on our relations with provinces and territories, which have a lot of the on-the-ground responsibility for consumer issues and so on when it comes to legislation, the code of conduct, the supply chain and our financing of the consumer sector, I would say that we've tried to take a multipronged approach in the grocery sector to bring some pressure to bear on the various players to act.