Thank you.
I'm not sure who to direct this to.
There is perhaps a general problem that is full of specific different examples when it comes to supply chains crossing borders. It's a lack of harmonization about regulations.
I heard one example from my riding recently. There is a major lead acid battery recycling plant in my riding. All lead acid batteries in cars, trucks and all of that are pretty much 100% recycled and made into new batteries. It's actually quite a wonderful system. The trouble is that when those batteries are being transported within North America, each individual one is tracked. It's quite an operation and adds cost to the companies doing this. However, if they are shipping them out of Canada to, say, Asia, they just list them as auto parts and it's much cheaper. It's cheaper for companies with used batteries to send them to Asia for recycling. We lose all that material and we lose the jobs. Also, it's an environmental risk.
I'm wondering whether there's part of the government somewhere—I don't know if it's CBSA or Transport Canada—looking at those bits of harmonization that are lacking, the things that make things difficult for Canadian companies and the economy in general.