Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I also want to thank all the presenters today. It's been fantastic to hear their statements about what's happening with Canada's supply chain.
I want to go back to a question asked by one of my colleagues about the effect of the pandemic on our supply chain. Certainly, from what I'm hearing, it wouldn't be the number one issue. A lot of it seems to be about climate change. All of those items are things we need to look at, but what I've heard consistently through this presentation from pretty much every individual.... As Julia said, regulatory processes and infrastructure.... It's infrastructure, infrastructure, infrastructure. I heard that from many other presentations, as well—that we need to do something, so these products can move in our country a lot faster than they are.
My question is about the amount of red tape required to get a process moving because, in the last seven years, I have heard about it consistently, whether the government is federal, provincial or municipal. These other issues, as I said, are often aside. They're going to happen, but I think the key is the infrastructure. The question I have for pretty much everyone is, do you think it's still too difficult to move projects ahead in a timely fashion? Has it gotten any better?
Each time, we say we're looking forward to federal partnerships and funding and things of that nature. That's all fantastic, but if we can't get those shovels in the ground because of that many roadblocks, are we moving ahead, or is that the main reason why we have a sore supply chain? Is it the fact that, no matter what the other issues are, we just don't have the infrastructure there?
As a follow-up, I will quickly ask, what are the easy things we could do in a fast way to hopefully get products moving a lot quicker?