International Trade committee  I'll jump in on that one initially. We believe there is. There's a significant impact overall. On the earlier comment about the expansion progress and whether we have capacity, we know that the Roberts Bank terminal 2 project in Vancouver is going to add 1.6 million containers i

International Trade committee  Yes, we do.

International Trade committee  I don't have those numbers, but we can look at the port of Montreal and their volume statistics to see where they are relative to a year ago and watch the declining volumes coming through the port. With the situation in the global economy today, the volumes are significantly dow

International Trade committee  I truly wish I did. Unfortunately, I do not. Again, we have the parties at the table, so there has to be a willingness. We've been through this for the last hour. There has to be a willingness on both sides to conclude an agreement. If you get that, then the best deals are done

International Trade committee  In answer to your question, I think we are out of the pandemic catch-up phase—I'll put it that way—due to a number of different factors, but inflationary constraints on consumer spending habits have changed significantly. People now moving toward goods and on to other services ha

International Trade committee  Yes. I'm going to be as neutral as Mr. Ballantyne on this one as well. It's difficult for us to comment on, but as Mr. Ballantyne indicated, we have to keep up. We need to improve efficiencies overall, and we have to be a very productive port. A comment was made earlier about th

International Trade committee  Unfortunately, we don't have that level of information on how that would affect each importer or exporter from a business perspective.

International Trade committee  I think you're going to see some impact. I don't have the numbers on how many companies have gone out of business as a result of this, but there are significant impacts to the import community. We'll talk about imports at this point in time. When you have that disruption on the v

International Trade committee  We didn't address essential services in our opening remarks. We are very neutral on the process. We understand there are matters to be negotiated on both sides. Our position is that we just want an agreement. We want the parties back at work. We don't take the side of labour, and

International Trade committee  I'll speak on that as well. I provided in our opening remarks two examples, specific examples, one from an importer perspective and one from an exporter perspective. The importer was affected because, when you have a 13-day strike or labour disruption, we have to understand th

International Trade committee  I would say that it does. That's correct.

International Trade committee  Thank you very much for the opportunity to speak with you today and to be invited to this panel. I'm going to ask Julia Kuzeljevich to start, and I will finish the opening remarks.

International Trade committee  We canvassed our members in anticipation of this appearance, asking about the impacts of the west coast strike last summer, and got reactions such as members saying that the most frustrating part of the Vancouver situation seemed to be the complete lack of understanding of supply

Transport committee  I'm going to quite simply say that we agree. The labour component has to go hand in hand with the infrastructure strategy we're talking about. We have to get the proper infrastructure in place, and it has to support the supply chain challenges we're faced with today. If it's not

Transport committee  I believe that would be beneficial and would simplify the process for our community and the community we represent. Again, in the freight forwarding sector, a lot of these organizations are national and multinational-type organizations. They have staff in multiple provinces acros