Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'm so glad to see that Mr. Buy was able to join us from the Ferry Association.
Obviously in northwest B.C., as you know very well, there are a lot of ferry-dependent communities, and just recently a major cancellation caused by staffing issues on the ferry left lots of passengers stranded. Because the ferry over to Haida Gwaii, for instance, carries lots of goods for stores there, we saw some empty store shelves, and it had a huge impact. I think that is now being resolved, but, of course, the backlog that creates takes some time to work out.
Perhaps from your discussions with B.C. Ferries you could provide a bit of a sense of what that recovery looks like and how significant the COVID-related impacts on labour shortages continue to be in the ferry sector.