I very much empathize with what you outlined with the port of Vancouver. I guess the problem with the port of Vancouver is that it's stuck between the mountains to the north and the U.S. border to the south. It is a massive population centre, which is growing up. You have residential areas pretty much right beside industrial facilities; the Burrard Inlet is incredibly congested, and you have that narrow point right by the Lions Gate Bridge.
It's affecting my constituents right across the water in Vancouver Island. When we don't see an efficient port operation, we see vessels anchoring in the waters around my riding for weeks at a time. My constituents feel like they're being used as an industrial overflow parking lot for the port of Vancouver.
In the United States, the U.S. port envoy expressed a view that participants in the global supply chains do not share sufficient information. Since we have clear federal jurisdiction, both over our rail networks and our port operations, I wonder what more we can do to facilitate that information sharing, so that vessels are arriving in an efficient manner and are not staying anchored for eight weeks at a time anywhere near the port of Vancouver. Maybe we could have some kind of a just-in-time arrival system.
Do you have any thoughts as to what we can recommend for that?