International Trade committee  Yes. I think that came from the 2020 “ease of doing business” index from the World Bank, and it's 51 for trading “across borders”, not necessarily U.S.-Canada borders but trading overall, globally, into Canada.

International Trade committee  Yes, it is. Everything is in place, as it was prior to that date.

International Trade committee  That's a very loaded question. Thank you for bringing it up. The standing committees have dealt with these matters. I know you've met with the particular industry stakeholders, as well as the CBSA directly, on the challenges with the program. After those standing committee meetings...we were having biweekly meetings with the CBSA, but those have been cancelled.

International Trade committee  That is correct.

International Trade committee  It was identified at the last meeting that out of the trade chain partners and the people who were doing the system testing, there were only three who were certified. That's out of all of the service providers, so that testing has to continue. There were a number of issues that were brought forward and discussed with this committee, such as the incorrect calculation of duties and taxes.

International Trade committee  I'm sorry for not addressing that point earlier, but yes, we are seeing examples of that. Our members are indicating that their clients are moving product south of the border. They are making some of those conditions or some of those arrangements at this point in time. It occurred last year with Vancouver.

International Trade committee  Thank you for the opportunity in that question. Could the federal government do more? I would say yes. When it comes to rail, we found out yesterday that they broke apart in their mediation or conciliation or whatever stage they're at now. They're in a potential to go on strike on May 22.

International Trade committee  Last year, the government's magic bullet in supply chain efficiency seemed to be data sharing. We agree that this can be critical, but we've still not seen a coherent plan and we don't know what data will be required or how it will be shared among agencies. Another recent issue is the requirement to file data elements on air shipments to the government for security screening.

International Trade committee  I'll jump in on that one initially. We believe there is. There's a significant impact overall. On the earlier comment about the expansion progress and whether we have capacity, we know that the Roberts Bank terminal 2 project in Vancouver is going to add 1.6 million containers into that port sometime in 2030.

International Trade committee  Yes, we do.

International Trade committee  I don't have those numbers, but we can look at the port of Montreal and their volume statistics to see where they are relative to a year ago and watch the declining volumes coming through the port. With the situation in the global economy today, the volumes are significantly down.

International Trade committee  I truly wish I did. Unfortunately, I do not. Again, we have the parties at the table, so there has to be a willingness. We've been through this for the last hour. There has to be a willingness on both sides to conclude an agreement. If you get that, then the best deals are done at the table.

International Trade committee  In answer to your question, I think we are out of the pandemic catch-up phase—I'll put it that way—due to a number of different factors, but inflationary constraints on consumer spending habits have changed significantly. People now moving toward goods and on to other services has had an impact as well, but in answer to your question, we are largely out of the pandemic catch-up at this point in time.

International Trade committee  Yes. I'm going to be as neutral as Mr. Ballantyne on this one as well. It's difficult for us to comment on, but as Mr. Ballantyne indicated, we have to keep up. We need to improve efficiencies overall, and we have to be a very productive port. A comment was made earlier about the ranking of the port of Vancouver.

International Trade committee  Unfortunately, we don't have that level of information on how that would affect each importer or exporter from a business perspective.