I'll give you a bit of background.
This was during last season, when we were doing a resupply in the Canadian Arctic. Of course, we serve over 40 communities across the Canadian Arctic. On a return trip, to optimize the seaway, the client asked us to go and get a shipment from Greenland, in a completely uninhabited place. It was basically a place where old mining equipment was being recovered to be brought back to Valleyfield, where it would then be processed. We're talking about a small volume.
When the ship returned to Canada, we were required to go to Montreal to unload the cargo of international origin. It was genuinely of international origin, yes. If we had had the capacity to do it at the Port of Valleyfield, we would have done so. However, we had to unload about 10 containers in Montreal. We reloaded the ship in Montreal. Afterward, the ship headed to Valleyfield to unload the rest of the cargo. That's when the Canada Border Services Agency said that, to ensure good risk management, it might be appropriate to clear the entire shipment, even though it was of Canadian origin.
In such a context, what would need to happen? There would have to be flexibility on the part of CBSA officers. If you have to unload and reload 10 containers or so, that's inefficient for the Port of Montreal. That doesn't help the efficiency and flow of supply chains. There would also have to be support in more complex supply chains to make it possible to fully understand and absorb what's being done, in order to make everything easier.
