Transport committee  Thank you for your question. If you take a moment to look at the market and what works well for others internationally, you notice something right away. Just as the Internet works using networks, ports that work using networks are better organized in countries where it's allowe

Transport committee  Absolutely. Naturally, the U.S. federal government is investing heavily in its port facilities, particularly to increase their capacity. This past weekend, we learned that $1.5 billion would be made available for rail service. Our country was built on a rail network, so we alrea

Transport committee  I'd say, to bounce back on what I just commented on, disjointed supply chains, folks who are working for their own little piece of the pie. If they don't see a whole, if they don't see it in its entirety from origin to destination, I think we're losing some of that on efficiency.

Transport committee  During COVID we obviously had issues filling all of our positions because of the sanitary and hygiene issues related to COVID and the isolation in some cases, but going forward we are definitely concerned about the availability of labour for the port authority itself, because we

Transport committee  Thank you for your question. With respect to Contrecœur, initially, when we first contacted all the partners to obtain authorizations, we committed right away to proceeding with electrification where it was technically possible. Therefore, measures to electrify handling equipmen

Transport committee  I think the ports play a role, sometimes even a complementary role to each other. Definitely, having a network of ports to service our Canadian exporters is absolutely necessary. I am unclear whether we actually need more ports per se. We already have 17 port authorities all acro

Transport committee  Here in Montreal?

Transport committee  For us, we're building an additional container terminal, because we believe that we're going to be running out of vacancy in the next few years. As I mentioned in my testimony, aside from building additional infrastructure, we're not building what we used to build 20 or 30 years

Transport committee  Does your question relate to current supply chains?

Transport committee  I would say that it's not really a problem, it's more like a great opportunity. As I said a little earlier in my remarks, the proposed business model for coming to Montreal makes most of our clients behave a little differently than when they go to coastal ports. We have a destin

Transport committee  Yes, it is.

Transport committee  Absolutely. No amount of regulation would protect us from a future pandemic with global implications. At the same time, the Montreal Port Authority has come through a period where we had two work stoppages during a conflict with the longshoremen. So I think we need to take steps

Transport committee  Thank you, Mr. Iacono. Yes, the COVID‑19 pandemic initially had an impact on workforce availability and operations, due to the health restrictions brought in in the early months. Of course, afterwards, most of the issues were related to managing import and export timing. As I

Transport committee  Is it better now? I just selected the right microphone.

Transport committee  I was saying, basically, that first there were the pandemic-related health restrictions and issues with labour availability. Then we had to deal with ship delays, as did our clients. In addition, the fact that export cargo was not arriving at the same time as import ships also ca