Finance committee  Technically, it's a classification issue. It's being blended. Historically, to be a contractor driver in the trucking industry involves a truck, some ownership responsibility for that vehicle, payment responsibility for that vehicle, fuel, plates, etc. What is happening now is an evolution, which we refer to as Driver Inc., where drivers incorporate themselves and refer to themselves as contractors, or for tax code purposes as a small business, while having no, for lack of a better word, skin in the game.

Finance committee  I think it's multi-stepped. You heard from a number of witnesses—and I'm going to borrow from them—that it's about proactive enforcement, as opposed to reactive enforcement. It's about clarification of the law. I think the CRA has a role to play here. The incorporation of employees is not just a trucking issue; it's an issue in other sectors as well.

Finance committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Thank you to all the members for having us here today. As mentioned by the chair, my name is Stephen Laskowski. I'm president of the Canadian Trucking Alliance. I am joined by my colleague Jonathan Blackham. By way of background, the Canadian Trucking Alliance is a federation of the nation's provincial trucking associations.