Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, witnesses.
I'd also like to welcome Mr. Easter. We worked together on the Canada-U.S. committee and the regulatory cooperation council. The RCC is an ongoing initiative, and I appreciate the work that the CBSA does and continues to do. We work on it together with our friends at Homeland Security to try to make the 49th as seamless as possible. It's easier said than done, as you can see with regard to a witness today.
It's something that I know Minister Fast is working closely on with his counterparts in the U.S., trying to make that border as friendly as possible, because about $1 million a minute and $2 billion a day is going across the border. These are the most integrated economies in the world. One in five jobs is based on trade, and we know that it's about 25% of our GDP. We have to continue to work together. I thank you folks for your entrepreneurial skills and for creating jobs.
One of the mandates of this mission of our committee is that we're trying to help your businesses expand not only to the U.S. but across to the other 38 new trading partners that we've signed agreements with. One of the initiatives that Minister Fast has been going across the country about, with some of the other ministers, is the Go Global workshops. Let me quickly go around the room and to our witnesses who are here via video and ask you to let me know if you've heard of the Go Global workshops, if you've participated in them, and, if you have, if you think they're good. If you haven't, maybe we can connect you with them.
Mr. McKay.