It's critical. If you can't move it, you can't sell it. If they don't believe they're going to be able to do business with us, they're not going to do business with us.
I've mentioned the efforts whereby we're going to have to diversify our trade, but if we're not able to expand our capacity through building projects more quickly and getting shovels in the ground, or ensure that there's labour stability to allow us to move these products, we're not going to re-establish this reputation.
I mentioned that since 2023, we've seen many labour disruptions. These include having the ports in British Columbia shut down twice, the second time at the same time as the port of Montreal. We saw the entire rail network shutting down, the St. Lawrence Seaway shutting down and strike mandates with a number of the CBSA agents. We've seen it with our airlines as well. All of this is critical to our reputation. We don't just hear about this domestically. We hear it internationally, when we do missions abroad.
Also, if you look at some of the statements we've made, they've been in collaboration with, for example, the U.S. chamber, because even when politicians aren't necessarily talking to each other, businesses continue to work together and to look to improve our economic circumstances. We have been very much on the same page about what these labour disruptions are doing to our ability to grow our economies.
