International Trade committee  Mr. Montanti is the expert on this report from our perspective.

International Trade committee  We're in the same position on that one as the last question. That was more of a transportation point.

International Trade committee  I can't answer that, no.

International Trade committee  To be honest with you, I'll say no. When we look at it from the timing perspectives, that could certainly drive part of it. Diving into the depths of the report, I'm going to refer to Mr. Montanti if he is still there.

International Trade committee  Again, from our perspective, we're dealing with the people who are within the supply chain. Getting that there, I'm not really sure, to be honest with you, where the....

International Trade committee  From our perspective when looking at just-in-time, it's certainly a model that was well in play whenever it ran like clockwork. I think you saw a prime example of how clockwork goes aside when you have something like the pandemic that struck in 2020. Health care supplies, which always had been been planned out for just so long—because you could plan that very well—all of a sudden had a huge increase in demand.

International Trade committee  Yes, I'll answer very quickly. For us, it is the skill set that's a vacuum across the country and across all sectors. Once the programs and so forth are in place, we can deliver on them. We can deliver the training for them.

International Trade committee  I will also defer to Martin as well when we follow up on this, but, from my perspective, we are seeing that the labour shortage, as far as the skilled labour shortage within the supply chain, is across all sectors in private and in public. We're seeing it right across the board.

International Trade committee  Hello, and thank you again for the invitation to speak with you today. I'm Mike Whelan, chair of Supply Chain Canada's board of directors. I'm joined virtually today by Martin Montanti, the president and CEO of Supply Chain Canada. I would like to begin with an introduction to Supply Chain Canada and our association.