I think the trucker shortage is a much bigger picture than that. If you look across the country right now, you will see that a lot of provinces are impacted by that shortage, but more specifically Ontario, B.C. and Alberta. You have truckers retiring, you have truckers leaving the workforce after all of what we've experienced, including what you've outlined, and you have people not entering the workforce.
One of the studies I saw when we had the B.C. Trucking Association present at one of my meetings here back in February was...we have probably a shortage of 25,000 drivers across the country—if not more at this point. So, it's a much bigger picture than just a COVID-specific problem. It has been an ongoing issue, and it continues to grow. We don't seem to have any solutions right now for it.
I think there's a focus on it, and from what I understand the government and the feds have taken some initiative around it in conjunction with the provinces, but it is an overall workforce problem that we have. It's no different from some of the other ones like maybe the railways and some of my members are facing also, but the percentages seem to be much higher within the trucking industry.