Industry committee  Brian, typically we don't bring a lot of products across the border. We purchase our products in Canada from Canadian manufacturers or importers and local farmers, as I mentioned earlier, so that hasn't been a particular issue for us. What is an issue is the large U.S. companies

Industry committee  Well, if they can't easily unpack.... There's no labelling on a lot of our products internally. The restaurants don't need to have internal labelling. On a six-by-two kilogram case of french fries, they don't have to have the labelling that would be required in the retail trade.

Industry committee  The primary inhibitors are the pack sizes of the food we carry. They're very large packages. For example, when you have a 50-pound case of chicken wings, it's not very easy to go into a retail establishment. We are looking at items from an e-commerce point of view that the consum

Industry committee  My American competition has a great lobby, and I'm quite sure they have something in the works to help them. Let's face it: There are two sides of the food distribution network in Canada; one is retail and one is food service. We're in the food service sector, distributing to res

Industry committee  I think all of my associates in businesses across the country use that as an advantage to deal and compete with Sysco and GFS. We deal with companies like Gray Ridge Eggs and Norfolk Potato Company. These are all Ontario companies like Shaw's Ice Cream and Ubbelea mushroom farm.

Industry committee  Well, Brian, instead of sitting still, we've tried to look at other avenues to sell our products. We have about $4 million of inventory in our Windsor warehouse. We looked at other ways of trying to start moving product and gain some revenue to cover some of our fixed expenses, s

Industry committee  I can answer that. We just launched an e-commerce site to be able to sell directly to the public, who are tired of waiting in line at Costco and grocery stores with masks on. It's something we never thought we'd do, but we're trying to do anything and everything to keep people e

Industry committee  It was launched a few days ago.

Industry committee  I'm just finishing.

Industry committee  —and be considered to be severed, with the associated severance liability going to the employer. Lastly, full relief from this severance obligation must be provided if you want businesses to pick up the pieces and try to rebuild themselves. Thank you for your time.

Industry committee  Good evening, committee. My business, Morton Food Service, just celebrated its 100th year in 2019. We employ over 110 individuals throughout southwestern Ontario. As some background, we started as a small retail shop on Ouellette Avenue in Windsor, and we have progressed to bec