Thank you very much, Madam Chair. I truly appreciate the opportunity to ask some questions.
For our witnesses, as you're aware, we're studying opportunities in the Indo-Pacific. We had a group of soybean representatives here, and that triggered a line of questioning that I had from one of my constituents, who is a broker dealing with soybeans. It was about container shortages.
MP Masse has been after this for a long time, and so has our chair, Judy, so thank you for coming and presenting, because we want to figure out how we might make some recommendations to immediately improve the situation. We also have to take a look at long-term logistics.
My questions are for Mark, one of our witnesses. I'll start with him, and perhaps the other witnesses may wish to chime in.
It seems to me that there's a multitude of issues out there, and they've been identified by all our speakers. One of the issues that we haven't delved into too much and that I'd like you to speak about is the labour shortage.
We understand the shortage of containers themselves, the monopolies that certain countries are creating and the cartel and whatnot, but it seems to me that there is a labour shortage. It can be in the trucking industry. This particular broker mentioned to me that recently there has been a shortage of truckers, and that begins the process of the problem, with the rail companies and the shipping companies as well. He also shared the opinion of one of our speakers about shipping companies making record-breaking profits.
I'll start with the question about labour shortages. What does it look like for you and are you experiencing that as well? Do you see that as an issue?