There is no trade-off between border security and efficiency. How can we better use technology to efficiently pre-clear our cargo and our citizens? Some of the examples that were offered today were alignment and elimination of red tape. Some of the other committee witnesses have talked about harmonization, e-manifests for freight forwarders, border wait times applications or an app, electronic data interchange.
Can you offer some suggestions about how we can better use technology, considering that there was no Internet when NAFTA was first drafted?