Thank you for the question.
Yes, we have certainly put a lot of thought into this issue, and it is something that's very concerning for our members. As you know, a driver—at least the way I understand it—can't drive more than 13 hours, or after having been on duty for 14 hours. The ELD, or electronic logging device, will automatically begin calculating a driver's hours of service as soon as the truck reaches approximately six kilometres an hour, which doesn't always align with when the animals are actually loaded onto the truck.
That can have some unintended and adverse consequences, both from an animal welfare perspective and from a biosecurity perspective because, as you said, there are these rest stops where animals can commingle and they can spread disease. I'm sure it wasn't ever anyone's intended effect or impact, but it's something we need to look at.
One of the things we would recommend is looking at better alignment and closer alignment with the U.S. regulations, in this case, especially since there's so much cross-border traffic between Canada and the U.S.