Citizenship and Immigration committee  The only comment I would make is we agree. Again, the vast majority of our industry that utilizes the program doesn't do so on a temporary or seasonal basis. The people we are bringing to Canada we are hoping to keep here in Canada as permanent employees. I would agree that de

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Andrew.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'll commit to providing a written submission on that, because I can't get into it in one minute or less. I would also defer to my colleagues, Scott and Greg. Just to answer your question, it would be some kind of help desk or user desk, something like that to help people throug

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Again, without getting into superspecific detail, what I can suggest is that all our members deal with banks, and once they go through the initial credit application process, they don't redo it every time they want to access their line of credit. CBSA and other federal governme

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. I have one last quick point. Again, there are other independent agencies that you can utilize to help determine best practice: employer of choice, your Trucking HR Canada; trusted trader programs through the federal government; a certificate of recognition; and safety

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would defer to Mr. Kinley or Mr. Arndt. I would suggest there's a fine balance. We want to bring over employees who will connect with not only our industry but also the employer who brings them over, who hosts them. That said, we understand the need for transition. I don't hav

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you very much. We would echo those comments. We understand that there needs to be some rigour within the system, and we don't dispute that at all, but once you're in, again, that trusted employer concept should be put in place as well. Mr. Carvajal spoke to it very succinc

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. If my colleagues are okay with it, I will go first. Thank you very much to everybody for having us today. My name is Terry Shaw. I'm the executive director of the Manitoba Trucking Association, which represents over 300 companies in the Manitoba trucking

Transport committee  For clarity, I think maybe you're thinking of the word accident in terms of a vehicular accident. We're talking about incidents, just to clarify that.

Transport committee  As a point of clarity as well, the number of incidents is low. Again, we're focusing on that 70%. When there is an incident, the majority of them are limited in exposure in terms of the general public. They're at shipper or receiver locations. The overall number of incidents is s

Transport committee  I was going to say that all parties play a role, primarily our drivers. They're the ones in the seat so they make the call. That said they may not know what's ahead of them down the road. As Mr. Benson had suggested, the ability to communicate in real time about opportunities or

Transport committee  I just wanted to add that in Manitoba we've lobbied effectively as of about a month ago for the creation of an industry-specific safety association. While that is a provincial body, what it would do is exactly what you're suggesting. It would create those template documents. That

Transport committee  We appreciate the invitation to appear today. For those of you who are unfamiliar with us, the Manitoba Trucking Association was founded in 1932. The Manitoba Trucking Association represents about 300 member companies. Our member companies represent over 25% of the for-hire tru