Thank you, Chair.
It's good to see you. It's been a while since I've been on this committee.
I've been in international business all my life and what I see in the shipping market is unbelievable. It is hard to understand and hard to comprehend. Truly, it's beyond many people to be able to clearly understand or explain what's going on.
What comes to mind, based on the conversations and the observations that we've had today from the witnesses, is that the problem is on three levels. It's the government, the transportation industry and the business industry.
The question to Mark is, how do we sit down in front of each other, face to face, and say we have a problem? If a container goes to the west coast but to the United States, it will cost three or four times less than if it comes to Canada. Thus, we have a problem. Let's face the truth.
What are we doing wrong in this country that we cannot solve this problem and bring goods into Canada or ship goods out of Canada in the most efficient way, compared with other economies?