Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Ferguson and your team, for the report and the recommendations.
When we look at these current challenges and issues, I want to stick to looking at the efficiencies and where those can be brought in and how we overcome those.
We talk about the resources. Could you break that down? When we look at our IT infrastructure, is it a human resource gap that we have in terms of addressing these issues, or is it that we need more harmonization to build in those efficiencies, especially at our ground border?
Some of the companies that have come in and presented to us—Amazon, FedEx and others—talked about how difficult it is when they try to get across the border with the many line items that they have to sift through. It doesn't matter if it's footwear or apparel or food goods. Whatever it is, we have, as I see here, 7,400 tariff items, and most of the country's customs revenue is generated from 567 items. Is that not harmonized right now, especially with the United States, in terms of those tariff items, whatever the line item that they have to mark down on the form to be able to get that item across the border?