International Trade committee  That's an important question because one major issue we faced was a lack of information. There was a concerted effort on the part of Transport Canada to get stakeholders on a daily call, which was immensely helpful. However, there was a good degree of silence behind some of the n

International Trade committee  Thanks for the opportunity to promote the conference. We are really thrilled to be an association that prides itself on working well and collaboratively with our other sister associations such as the FMA. We do not like to point fingers. We don't want to be reactive. We want to b

International Trade committee  I would agree about the cost of uncertainty. Certainly in our efforts to have information for our members that cost of uncertainty, which is difficult to determine as a lot of the panellists have commented just given the way that data is gathered and how we can obtain it even fro

International Trade committee  Good morning. Thank you for having us appear today. Madam Chair, committee members, on behalf of the Canadian International Freight Forwarders Association, or CIFFA, we'd like to thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today. Very briefly, for those who may not know, fre

Transport committee  What we have seen coming across our desk at the association over the past two years of COVID is that, with the COVID-zero policy in China, what they require is quarantining and locking down entire ports, for example, even with a few cases, so you have several things creating a do

Transport committee  Well, we've witnessed a compounding effect. Even before COVID, we were in trouble. For example, weather-related delays occur every year and we expect those. Low temperatures in the winter require slower trains across the Prairies. To a large degree, a lot of those things are ex

Transport committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, for inviting Bruce and me to speak on this critical issue. Mr. Chair, ladies and gentlemen of the committee, on behalf of the Canadian International Freight Forwarders Association, thank you for giving me the opportunity to address you today.