From our perspective, there was the beyond the border initiative, which was introduced roughly in 2011, that identified several issues but also had several recommendations in its work plan, all focused on how we can make the Canada-U.S. border, for instance.... When we talk about exports, our primary market for production in Canada is the United States, although plants now in Canada are acquiring what we call global mandates, and so exports more broadly to other countries around the globe are also going to be very important as we go forward. The idea here is to maintain security at the border but also to ensure that the border is basically seamless.
For our part, we're a highly integrated industry. We move parts and components back and forth across the border as many as six or seven times a day towards our finished product. We still continue to run into issues with CBSA that thicken the border, even though we are trusted traders. We're hoping to remove some of those things. That, of course, takes not just efforts on the part of CBSA, but efforts on the part of their counterparts in the U.S. To be fair, that's something that needs to be done and done jointly.
There is room for improvements that have been on the books or at least recommended but that are not yet in place. We would like to see that agenda continue, just as we would the Regulatory Cooperation Council, under which we have differences in regulations that should be removed between Canada and the United States.
Yes, there are efficiencies and some greater alignment that need to happen and a need to take away some of the administrative burden that exists. Particularly when we talk about de minimis thresholds for goods, or when we talk about, for instance, the FAST lanes—that's the infrastructure part of this—it all has to work hand in hand.
What we're saying is that we have a long way to go and there are opportunities that we should continue to pursue.