Thank you, Madam Chair.
I just want to state for the record, especially for Mr. Murray, that no one here is disputing the union's right to strike for better wages. That's unanimously supported by all parties in the House of Commons, but we do want to look at the economic impact of this strike. That's the whole point of this study.
I wanted to quickly follow up. I'm going to ask all three to answer—the freight forwarders association, the board of trade and the Freight Management Association of Canada.
There have been many sorts of reports on what the economic impact has been. I think the $10 billion is the value of the goods that were disrupted. What I want to talk about is the economic impact to the small businesses and others, because I don't think we have a good understanding of what that actual impact is, which includes the fact that these businesses may lose customers because their supply of product is now unstable. Therefore, companies go elsewhere to have those goods supplied.
Could all of you comment on that and whether or not you think that's been captured in any of the calculations of the economic impact?
Mr. Ballantyne, why don't you go first?