Transport committee  I'll add to that. In the report, when we put that we need also to have a supply chain labour strategy, that's exactly what we were thinking about. It's actually not only truck drivers, but everybody who is touched by logistics, because we need to push even further to recognize th

Transport committee  The key individuals you'll be choosing should also be very focused business people. You're going to need leaders who will also be capable of managing each department and pushing those trade objectives, because it's so depending on the future of Canada. At the end of the day, when

Transport committee  I'll go back to the supply chain office. The supply chain office will pay for itself just to get back our trade share worldwide, especially with the U.S. I think you can look at gaining back three share points of our U.S. trade, which is a tremendous amount of money, and it won'

Transport committee  Everybody will continue to fight for their piece of real estate. The trick is to put KPIs that are oriented to supply chain in each department and report those KPIs. The supply chain office would be following them and making sure each department is also keeping track. At the en

Transport committee  Before you go to seamless operations, when we're talking about the industry, the supply chain works in silos, and what's key is digitalization. Digitalization is key in order to share information. Even though there are publicly traded companies like that, we have to find a way fo

Transport committee  The labour shortage started to be felt in 2015. The demographic curves have shown the aging of the population since 1997. Looking at those curves, we could have predicted that it was coming and understood that immigration would not be sufficient to solve the shortage. We could al

Transport committee  We spent 100 days thinking about solutions, and labour was a major issue. We spoke with different stakeholders. We need to get and train immigrants in the short term. We can talk about automation, but right now, in the short term, we need immigrants and temporary workers, and we

Transport committee  Yes, especially in the case of applications by temporary workers who are needed for the harvest. The farmers we met with told us about the long processing times for those applications. So yes, the efficiency with which applications from workers in that sector are processed needs

Transport committee  We need skilled people, but we also need unskilled people we can train. Take the agri-food sector. If a person works in the slaughterhouse at Olymel, for example, their skills in other areas are not being developed as well. That is an important factor to take into consideration.

Transport committee  I would add, for our discussion, that rail is also a North American activity. We spent a week in Washington, and we looked at some of the practices of the Surface Transportation Board. That's also in our report.

Transport committee  I don't operate a transport company. You can read the results of our research in our report. We would agree with that recommendation ourselves if the industry thinks it would enable them to recruit more drivers. The objective is to hire more drivers in order to offer more service

Transport committee  I won't answer on behalf of Quebec; I am not its premier.

Transport committee  My parents arrived from Italy, as did yours, I assume. They were hired by Canadian Pacific. They disembarked at Ellis Island, in New York City. I won't take a position regarding Quebec. The government has its policies. I am not in the government. I think we need immigrants to co

Transport committee  If the governments worked together well, there would undoubtedly be no labour shortage. The governments have to look at the labour shortage as a national problem. It isn't solely a provincial problem. We have to find ways together to ensure Canada's prosperity and the efficiency

Transport committee  Mr. Strahl, one thing in our recommendations is that we are putting more power into the CTA. We also list some criteria that need to be followed by the CTA in order to engage the railways. For sure, with that in their hands, we're beefing up their authority, so that should be qui