International Trade committee  I'll go first and say that from our perspective, it would be nice if the communication between the U.S. government and the Canadian government was improved with respect to the CBP and the CBSA at the border. We went through this whole pandemic, and it just seemed like there was a

International Trade committee  No. The only support we received was in the form of some of the workforce labour incentives and grants we received, but in reaching out to the Canadian government and the U.S. government for financial assistance, to be honest with you, we did not really get a good answer as to wh

International Trade committee  The drop in volume was a little greater on the Rainbow Bridge, but it was pretty significant on both, to be honest with you.

International Trade committee  Yes, that's what I meant.

International Trade committee  I definitely agree with that.

International Trade committee  Technology would definitely benefit moving traffic more quickly across the bridge. It just has to be done the right way. One thing we saw was that this decision with ArriveCAN was done unilaterally by CBSA and the Canadian government. There should have been workshops and discus

International Trade committee  I'll make a quick opening statement. Basically, what we've seen from our side is the combination of three things. You have the staffing shortage with CBSA, and that is actually a real problem. We took a look at the Victoria Day holiday, Memorial Day and the Canada Day/Fourth of

International Trade committee  No. No one met with us to discuss that. Again, what we're seeing is that ArriveCAN and the vaccination reporting requirement are the problem together. Even the few times when there were more lanes open than at prepandemic times, we saw there were more delays in the traffic than

International Trade committee  Sure. Can you hear me right now?

International Trade committee  No, ArriveCAN definitely did not speed up traffic. There's really a combination of three things: the CBSA staff shortage, the public health measures and reporting of vaccination requirements, and ArriveCAN. The problem we saw was that it was hard to distinguish between the two;