Good afternoon, Minister.
Thank you for being with us today.
As we've seen in recent months, and really since last spring, the Prime Minister has focused extensively on expanding Canada's relationships in the Asia-Pacific, which is critical to meeting the government's target of doubling our non-U.S. exports over the next decade. This will—I think by necessity—mean an increase in volumes and capacity at west coast ports, notably in British Columbia, but as we heard this morning, some of the west coast ports are already struggling with peak season congestion and capacity constraints.
Could you please elaborate, Minister, on how the trade diversification corridors fund will be deployed to ensure that the west coast ports can handle the anticipated surge in Indo-Pacific volume without continuing this problem of bottlenecking that we're seeing?