Yes, I can talk about that, given the number of years we've discussed this for the ports and for the airports. The vision we have for this is to eventually replace the FAST card for the purposes of security clearance. Today a trucker must go through a background check both in the U.S. and in Canada to obtain this FAST card. Some people have told us that they perceive this as an intrusion by the American authorities into their private life.
That said, if we go with a Canadian security clearance and see the equivalency with our American counterparts, we have to convince them to accept these security clearances at face value in the U.S. if they are made in Canada. We are discussing that at this very moment for the port workers and for the mariners on board Canadian ships. When they go to the U.S. and go on shore they would like to have their Canadian security clearance recognized at face value. We're in the midst of a change of administration now in the U.S., and we're going to have to wait for the new administrator of the transportation security administration to continue those talks.
But both the ex-president and Prime Minister Harper recognized in recent talks, through the security and prosperity partnership, the need to have comparable systems and the need for reciprocity in mutually accepting the security clearances done in both countries and also in Mexico. Hopefully, if we get a security clearance system in place, a program in place for truckers, eventually that would negate the need for them to have a FAST card and they could drive down to the U.S. without the FAST card.