Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Coming from a business background, I'm always curious to know what businesses, co-ops in this particular case, you consider to be the competition, or whether you really have competition.
Mr. Morrison, I think you essentially said that the reason you're there is because it was the grassroots community, the public, who said they needed this type of cooperative arrangement in their communities. Perhaps that was out of necessity, or perhaps there was not adequate private sector competition that could provide those services.
Let me ask both of your organizations, do you have competitors? If so, what would you say is the main advantage for your clients, your members, who have chosen to be part of your cooperative rather than going down the street and buying what they need from the competition?
I don't know which organization wants to start, but I'd be curious to know. Certainly not knowing the far north very well, and not really knowing the sector as strongly as I should, probably one of the reasons I volunteered to serve on this committee is that I wanted to learn more about what the cooperative sector is doing across the country.
Mr. Morrison, do you want to start?