Agriculture committee  Grocery retail is a highly resilient industry. There are a number of pressures, as I mentioned in my opening remarks, that members are facing. Certainly, the blockades have been a major contributor recently, but there are a number of pressures, so to point to any one of them to s

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Turnbull. I guess there are two parts to that question. In terms of panic buying, that does not help. We saw that early on in the crisis with food. We saw it with other products; I think everybody heard about toilet paper and things like that. That not only does n

Agriculture committee  Labour has definitely been a challenge from our perspective. Some of our members do avail themselves of the temporary foreign worker program, so some movement in that regard would be helpful. What it comes down to is this. There are a number of pressures on the system right now

Agriculture committee  It would be interesting to engage in a discussion around that, but what would be most helpful would be the recommendations I mentioned in my opening remarks, so that retailers can do what they do best, and go about doing business.

Agriculture committee  This has been a very challenging time for everyone across the supply chain, as we've heard from witnesses today. There have also been record costs associated with the grocery retail sector in Canada, if you think about having to adapt to all of the changing public health measures

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Boulerice, for your question. I'm sorry. I'm hearing translation in the background. Anything that would streamline that sort of process would be helpful, and we'd be pleased to participate in those discussions.