Dan Albas

On the pod this week, I am joined today by Stephen Laskowski, President and the CEO of the Canadian Trucking Alliance. Steven also leads the Ontario Trucking Association, and he's spent decades working on trucking policy safety, labour standards, compliance, and supply chain issues. His perspective matters because he has not only been sounding the alarm on this issue for years, not only about the unfair competition and tax evasion, but about the real world consequences for drivers, law-abiding businesses, and families sharing the road. He's also been publicly calling for stronger enforcement, better national data sharing, more audits, and reforms to remove unsafe operators from the system. And this matters because Canadians should be able to trust that the rules protecting safety on our highways are being enforced. They should be able to trust that workers aren't being exploited, that honest businesses are not being undercut, and that governments are doing their job when dangerous loopholes appear.

The Minister of Transport could not name a single measure for addressing
W5 ’s exposé of baggage security gaps at Pearson Airport. This was the first time he has publicly mentioned the issue, despite it being a Transport Canada lead: