Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I know you were here in 2019. I was thinking about the theme here of fairness in what we're seeing. In 2019, Loblaws got $12 million for fridges. At that time, they had $800 million in profits alone. They got an investment of $36 million, so it was a $1:$3 ratio that year. In 2018, they also got caught hiding money in the Caribbean and paid a tax of $368 million on that. That's not forgetting that this was an organization that had a 14-year history of fixing the price of bread. This is one of the most important staples we have, and it's nothing short of organized crime at the end of the day when you have that type of long-standing organization.
I learned from my other committee that they also magically got rid of their hero pay on the same day as the other grocery store chains. All three of them got rid of it on the same day.
I want to go to the mushroom growers, Mr. Medeiros and Mr. Koeslag. Is this what you're really seeing, an issue of fairness?
Where I'm from, just outside the Leamington area, there are mushroom farms right there, next to greenhouse plants in operation. A lot of money has gone into the investment for it, often using a lot of the same labour skill force in trying to develop it. I was puzzled as to why you can't get an answer from the Department of Finance, I believe it is, about that.
Can you please highlight that? There seems to be a common theme about fairness, but not even getting an answer doesn't sound appropriate.