Thank you.
Mr. Wilson, this is a Canadian aspect. It's not only about my backyard of Essex and Windsor, although it's very near and dear to my heart. Essex and Windsor probably has some of the greatest and most advanced manufacturing assembly that happens across our incredible country called Canada, but I do realize that not only is it more countrywide, it's global.
Sir, I believe you mentioned in your opening statement that there are some 90,000 exporters. That one really caught my attention as something crazy. I would also suggest, sir, that I do know there's a major issue with.... Many people think about commerce as a good, as a piece of paper, as a carrot, but people are commerce. I've been speaking to so many people on both sides of the border, the Canada and U.S. sides, in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania—Mexico. I know a lot of the people you represent, sir, bring in thick stacks of paper to go across the border to show the CBSA officers, the border guards on the U.S. side, that they indeed are an essential service.
This question, quite frankly, can go to all of our witnesses. Would it be beneficial to the exporters, to our manufacturing, to our advanced manufacturing and assembly, if we had one page—one page—that shows people have been vaccinated within the last two hours, that they are an essential service? They show it to the border guards, and they're not tying up our border guards. They're not tying up commerce. Does that make sense?
I'm trying to get creative here so we can move past this and actually have the discussion to open up our economy.