Thank you, Mr. Chair. It's a pleasure to be here.
Thank you, Mr. Singh, for coming.
I find it curious that my Conservative colleagues have forgotten their own history. I remember the days of the Conservatives under Peter MacKay and David Orchard, the takeover and so forth, and even under the Harper administration, when they put just enough members in the House of Commons to oppose or turn over a government because they didn't have them in there. They went to the lobby like they did the other time, just this past session, instead of actually taking it on and trying to be constructive.
I think this bill is important because, despite the differences at the table about things, we can always find reasons not to do it.
This committee, however, actually has a good record of bipartisanship and putting on record some of these issues. With the grocery store chains in particular, it was this committee that first brought the CEOs here, because not only were they doing the bread price-fixing, but they also ended the pandemic pay the very same day, across the board.
Could you elaborate a bit more about the issue of bread pricing? It is a basic staple of human life that we use in Canada.
How might this bill have affected the Rogers-Shaw merger that went ahead? Had we had this protection, what would the potential outcome of that have been?