Video transcript
[An important message appears on a black screen.]
Text on screen: Dear neighbors, this video was shot prior to COVID-19. With the pandemic, Canada has remained and will continue to be a committed trading partner with the U.S. We’re focused on ensuring food security, protecting workers and supporting jobs and businesses on both sides. Cheers, your Canadian Neighbors.
[Upbeat country twang music begins to play.]
[Video opens with a clip of Cameron Bergen standing in front of a truck with his arms crossed and smiling.]
Voice of Cameron Bergen: We started in 1987 with our founder Steve Brandt…
[Cut to clip of the Steve's Livestock Transport sign outside the facility.]
Cameron: … who was trying to put food on the table. And he thought he could do that by moving some livestock.
[A truck begins to pull into the facility yard. A white rectangle with text appears on screen.]
Text on screen: U.S. and Canada. Going my way?
[Cut to Cameron Bergen in the warehouse standing for an interview. A banner with text and a Canadian flag appears on screen.]
Text on screen: Cameron Bergen. Director of Business Solutions, Steve's Livestock Transport.
Cameron: I'm Cameron Bergen, I am the director of business solutions for Steve's Livestock. We're based out of Blumenort, Manitoba....
[Cut to aerial view of the Steve's Livestock Transportation shipping yard and facility.]
Cameron: … just southeast of Winnipeg.
[Cut to Cameron being interviewed.]
Cameron: A lot of the producers and processors started to trade cross-border more and more as a result of NAFTA…
[Cut to aerial shots of a truck entering the lot.]
Cameron: … and as they started to explode and grow, we did it with them.
[Cut to Cameron being interviewed.]
Cameron: We'll export and move anything from genetics stock which will end up in an airport in Chicago or possibly Texas or Florida, to market loads…
[Cut to shot of truck reversing to attach a trailer.]
Cameron: ...to smaller pigs that'll be distributed throughout the United States.
[Cut to aerial view of truck parking in line of other trucks.]
Cameron: Our organization, with our 150 trucks…
[Cut to clip of a transport truck driving down a highway.]
Cameron: ... we will cross around 300 times a week.
[Cut to aerial clip of a driver getting out of his truck in the lot.]
Cameron: Then what we do is we look to bring goods back.
[Cut to Cameron being interviewed.]
Cameron: As we’ve started to export more and become a company that needed to be more aware of what was happening in the U.S. we started finding and growing better relationships with U.S. suppliers.
[Cut to clips of transport trucks driving around the facility.]
Cameron: What that allowed us to do is, over the last 30 years, bring a multitude of innovations and new products to market.
[Cut to Cameron being interviewed.]
Cameron: The trucking industry is the backbone of the exchange of goods.
[Cut to aerial clip of a transport truck driving around the facility.]
Cameron: Two thirds of goods that is exchanged of our trillion-and-a-half dollar shared economy…
[Cut to Cameron being interviewed.]
Cameron: … gets moved on trucks.
[Cut to aerial panoramic clip of the whole Steve's Transport facility.]
Cameron: When we look at what we call our industry, we don't draw a border between that when we think of Canada and the U.S.
[Cut to Cameron being interviewed.]
Cameron: Our industry is us working together with the leaders. And we have to do that. Globalization has seen over 70% consolidation in North America. The only way we can compete on a global scale is if we work together. And we have had nothing but great success working with our U.S. partners. Working together to bring new innovations that help us on both sides of the border. Regardless of where it is.
[Cut to close up clip of the side of a transport truck. A white square with text and a graphic of Canadian and U.S. flags on interchanging arrows appears on screen.]
Text on screen: Total U.S. - Canada agriculture and agri-food trade = $50.3B
[Cut to close up clip of the front of a transport truck. A white square with text and illustrations of people appears on screen.]
Text on screen: Nearly 9 million jobs in the U.S. rely on trade and investment with Canada.
[Cut to aerial clip of the lot. A white square with text and opposing rows of arrows appears on screen.]
Text on screen: Nearly $2B worth of goods and services crosses the U.S. - Canada border every day.
[Cut to Cameron being interviewed.]
Cameron: Let's keep a good thing growing.
[Cut back to aerial clip of the lot. A white rectangle with text appears on screen.]
Text on screen: For more information, please visit agr.gc.ca/agpartners.
[Cut to the Canada wordmark. Upbeat country twang music ends.]
Text on screen: Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, represented by the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food (2020).
[Screen cuts to black.]