Transport committee  I think that, in looking around, if we have a potential problem like we did last year in B.C., not having other options available at your fingertips is a huge problem right now. You have a few major port destinations that dominate, and not having other contingencies in place, w

Transport committee  Our members are struggling just like everybody else, depending on location or where they are. If they're in smaller communities, and that is one of the primary sources, it's perhaps a bit easier, but when you look at some of the other areas, you are competing with several other i

Transport committee  All right. That sounds good. That's a good question. I do believe if you took COVID out of the picture, we would still be in a situation very similar to the one we are in now. There may be a supply chain imbalance. We would maybe have less of an imbalance than we're seeing right

Transport committee  In the west and specifically out of Vancouver, some work has been done in the last, I'd say, five to seven years. Some of it has been successful. I think anything we do to contribute financially, with national trade corridor funding and so on, will definitely help. Every little b

Transport committee  I think the trucker shortage is a much bigger picture than that. If you look across the country right now, you will see that a lot of provinces are impacted by that shortage, but more specifically Ontario, B.C. and Alberta. You have truckers retiring, you have truckers leaving th

Transport committee  Thank you, Mr. Badawey. To respond to the NTC funding, obviously we have a lot of projects that are already on the go. Some are complete and many are on the books. Spending the money wisely and understanding where it's needed are key for this to begin with. There's a lot of good

Transport committee  No, I didn't say that. I said floods, fires, extreme heat, cold and also blockades. That really impacted things back in 2020.

Transport committee  It's just the infrastructure that's actually up there. There are speed limits coming out of the Fort McMurray area and there's a lot of congestion and traffic there. My members are continually struggling out there for service. They're also struggling to get additional warehouse s

Transport committee  That's a separate conversation.

Transport committee  Absolutely. Thanks. That's a good question, because we've been pushing for this for several years now. As we had suggested and continue to suggest, the focus would be looking at all modes, specifically rail and port trucking, and taking a whole holistic view of the supply chain

Transport committee  Thank you very much. Good morning, Mr. Chair and members of the standing committee. On behalf of the Western Canadian Shippers' Coalition, WCSC, I would like to thank you for the invitation to participate in this session. My name is Dave. I am the president and CEO. WCSC is b

Industry committee  We did bring that up with Transport Canada and NRCan early on, probably in the first two days, and in all fairness, it was submitted upward. I'm not sure who dealt with what, but I have to say the shippers are shippers alone. The energy companies did deal with it. They put protoc

Industry committee  Absolutely, it was. One bumped up pretty well right into the other, and yes, definitely, the impact was there. One thing about the supply chain and anyone who is dealing with the supply chain is that we're used to dealing with issues, so this just became another issue on top of

Industry committee  There's always a concern with that, because I don't think all of the issues that came up were fully vetted and put to bed. There's always a concern that once that behaviour has happened in the past, it can possibly predict future behaviour too.

Industry committee  Sharing details about what?