As well, the company's gross margins before fair
value adjustments shrunk from 58 per cent of sales or $ 12.5 million, compared to 64 per cent of sales or $ 6.2 million in the fiscal third quarter a year ago.
In response to a statement in the Legislature, statistics from 2004 - 2013 show that cost of living
adjustments for compensation benefits have in fact not kept pace with inflation — in real
value they have
shrunk by 9.6 %.