We're experiencing difficulty with the classification of a freight forwarder. I don't believe the general population—and maybe a lot of people around this table as well—truly understand what a freight forwarder is.
What we're trying to do is get that group classified under the national occupation classification code, because currently they are classified as “shippers and receivers”. When you're looking to bring people into the country to train them on this, they can come in only on a temporary work permit, and they're allowed to be here only for up to two years.
We're working with the NOC and trying to get them to change that classification so that it's more of a skilled position whereby those individuals could come in and, under the express entry system, obtain permanent residency and then move on into the workforce and into their careers in Canada.
The challenge we are faced with is that the review of the NOC occurs only every 10 years. They do a little cursory review initially, but it's 10 years before they do the major review. From our perspective, that's taking too long, and we're trying to position that.
We're talking about labour, and I won't belabour the point here, but the other challenge is that we have significant equipment-related issues that are going to be challenged. If we bring in 30,000 drivers, I'm not convinced we have the equipment to facilitate those drivers and keep them employed as time goes on.
I would say we are challenged in a number of different areas, and I don't think there's a really simple solution to any of them.
Thank you.