Agriculture committee  Without getting into any specific instances, because those would be matters that would be under the investigatory powers of the bureau, I would note the shift in law that we made in 2022, which was essentially to put potential wage-fixing coordination under the auspices of the act.

Agriculture committee  The code of conduct will set principles and clear definitions and include various dispute resolution and adjudication mechanisms. It's a project that's under way. It includes our colleagues over at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada as well as industry. We've heard loudly from other parts of the supply chain that smaller suppliers do want contractual certainty and that they do want mechanisms to be able to engage around the practices of the retail side of the industry, so the goal of the binding adjudication and some of the dispute resolution is to allow for those mechanisms for the industry to be able to engage across the supply chain.

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and all the members of the committee for inviting me to appear before you this evening to speak about the topic of food price inflation. My name is Mark Schaan, and I serve as the senior assistant deputy minister in the Strategy and Innovation Policy Sector at Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada.