Industry committee  I said our stores were safe.

Industry committee  We did have incidents. As I said, incidents did happen. They were lower than the Canadian population.

Industry committee  Absolutely, I would.

Industry committee  It's stressful. As I said already, the two-dollar premium was a temporary one. The economies are opening up, and other workers have gone back to work with regular pay. It's no different for our company and our industry to go back to the normal pay.

Industry committee  I don't have the specifics on the wine and the beer sales, but I imagine they would have increased. As we said, we have seen an increase in sales across many categories. What we've felt is a substantial increase in the costs to deal with the pandemic as well.

Industry committee  The incremental costs would be the social distancing in the store, the fewer people in the store, the plexiglass associated with the cashiers, the sanitization procedures and having somebody at the door to check the number of people going into the stores. All of these would be in

Industry committee  Yes. We would have seen an increase in the centre of the stores, so grocery, flour, those types of items. We would have seen an increase in some of those items. As people went back to baking, baking goods would have increased as well.

Industry committee  It would have been a combination of the people who chose to stay home, or we suggested they stay home if they were vulnerable—and we did offer them pay during that period—and the people who chose to because they were worried, and the huge demand to make sure that we kept things i

Industry committee  Not necessarily. For a part-time person starting, it would be the same, depending on the length of service. It could be the same. It could be different.

Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  I'm talking about the extenuating situation, the circumstances surrounding COVID-19 and the panic buying in our stores. It was for the appreciation for the hard work that the colleagues did.

Industry committee  It was appreciation for dealing with the extenuating situation.

Industry committee  Not in that way. A two-dollar premium for a period of time, no, we have never done that.

Industry committee  We did it for both. We had people who we needed to hire—of course we had to hire—and we did it in appreciation of our colleagues.

Industry committee  The media may be surprised. None of the colleagues in my business were surprised.