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Question: Endri Leno - National Bank Financial, Inc., Research Division - Analyst
: Congrats on the good quarter. The question I have, it's more a little bit on the pricing, but I was wondering Linda or Kristie, or both, if you can talk
a little bit about how much more of the pricing is left to do if there's any? And margin improvements for the balance of the year, where do you
expect most of these to come from, pricing, labor efficiencies, volumes, et cetera?
Question: Endri Leno - National Bank Financial, Inc., Research Division - Analyst
: Okay. Great. And the other question I have, I mean, it's just kind of looking at the 2 countries, Canada and the U.K., I would say U.K. performed better
than Canada, even accounting for size differences. So I was wondering if you can talk a little bit about what drove this relative outperformance in
the U.K., and then if you can compare and contrast the 2 regions?
Question: Endri Leno - National Bank Financial, Inc., Research Division - Analyst
: Great. And I'll ask one more and I'll jump in the queue. I have a few more. But if you can talk a little bit about the working capital outflow in the
quarter? I think it was more receivables, but if you can talk a little bit about it? And when do you expect it to revert?
Question: Endri Leno - National Bank Financial, Inc., Research Division - Analyst
: Thanks again. I didn't think I'd get my turn so quickly. But I was wondering -- I mean to the extent that you can talk about it, obviously, Linda, but
in terms of transactions, the opportunities, where do you see them? Is it more of a Canada? Is it more of a U.K.? What kind of volume mix and sizes,
if you can, I mean, obviously, to the extent you can disclose these things?
Question: Endri Leno - National Bank Financial, Inc., Research Division - Analyst
: My other question, it's a bit longer-term looking, so perhaps a bit harder to answer. But assuming we get back to the 2019 levels in the second half,
no problem, right? Where do you see the margin situation beyond that? Is that a good level, generally speaking to being? Or is there any room for
further improvements? And where could that -- those further improvements come from, potentially?
Question: Endri Leno - National Bank Financial, Inc., Research Division - Analyst
: Okay. Okay. Great. And the last one for me, foreign labor, you mentioned you're having some success with that. Are you able to talk a little bit about
how much of that is in, how much more do you expect? And then as they kind of, again, like looking into the future, which we don't know, but I
mean it's worth an ask. I mean, there are reports out there that there is a structural labor shortages in advanced economies. Like are you comfortable,
for example, having forward label as a more permanent solution to your ops?
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