Thank you for the question.
In fact, yes, Lacolle is a fairly significant, large border crossing. In terms of our strategy to onboard more traders, in fact we meet with our border consultative committee twice a year, usually in the spring and the fall. At our last meeting, we engaged in asking them to provide us with their best advice on how we can make this appealing. With the single window, we sort of approached it like the movie Field of Dreams: build it and they will come.
Well, it doesn't work that way. We thought we had something very beneficial for traders, but again, if we were not able to present the incentive and the benefit for them, that led to us getting minimal membership. That discussion led to a lot of interest on the part of traders. At the end of the day, what will give the trading community the ability to do it will be to send us electronically all their documents and permits and certificates that they need and to give the CBSA the ability to connect with the departments that are responsible for those goods and be able to confirm and facilitate and expedite the movement of those shipments at the border.
You're right, if you have perishable goods, having them at the border for a few hours delays the time when they get to the main warehouse from where they're distributed to our grocery stores. We are mindful of that and the need to change the approach. Usually in government we have a habit of telling industry, “This is what you need”. Well, we're changing that and in fact leveraging industry to tell us what they need.