Thank you, Madam Chair.
Mr. de Pulford, you spoke, in response to my colleague's question, about the differences between the American government's relative success in stopping products made with forced labour coming into the United States, and about Canada's catastrophic failure in preventing products involving forced labour from coming into our country.
You mentioned legislative differences between Canada and the United States, and you also mentioned potential issues of capacity. It has always seemed to me, though, that we can address the capacity challenges by having effective alignment among democracies. You understand that it's difficult to trace origins and that digging into supply chains can be complex, but if we collaborated more effectively with like-minded allies so that we could be sharing information, we would ease any capacity pressures and ensure that we would be succeeding at the level of our allies.
I would like to see a situation where, if a shipment is turned away from Seattle because it has products made with forced labour, it can't simply go and dock in Vancouver, so that we're benefiting from American experience and know-how and, really, the bipartisan work that's been done there. I also wonder if this kind of framework for collaboration could be extended to more allies, and if we could establish some kind of partnership involving our North American economies but also Japan, the U.K., Europe, etc.
What do you think about the possibility of establishing some kind of effective alignment on preventing products made with forced labour from coming into our economies and sharing information in the process?