b'Message from the PresidentMessage du prsidentStephen CryneT o all CERC members and our readers, I hope that tous les membres du CERC etnos lecteurs, je you and your families are safe and healthy during souhaite que vous et vos familles restiez en scurit et this unprecedented global pandemic. I think its safeen bonne sant pendant cette pandmie sans prcdent. to say the last several weeks have been like nothingCes dernires semaines, on peut bien le dire, nont rien any of us has ever experienced. Let us hope that as voir avec ce que nous avons connu avant. Esprons the global economy gradually reopens we will return to somequavec la rouverture progressive de lconomie, nous retrouve-level of normalcy. Let us also remember that we have much torons une certaine normalit. Rappelons-nous galement que nous be thankful for despite the chaos and uncertainty facing us inavons de quoi tre reconnaissants malgr le chaos et lincertitude the future.qui nous attendent. I know that we all share a sense of lossa loss for the daysJe sais que nous partageons tous un sentiment de perteperte where we could hop on a plane at will; didnt have to wear masksdes jours o nous pouvions monter dans un avion sans souci, and gloves to do our shopping or run errands; and when socialo nous navions pasporter de masque et de gants pour faire distancing was an odd if not unheard of turn of phrase. What thenos courses, et o la distance sociale tait une expression bizarre, post-COVID world will look like is anyones guess, but what wevoire indite. Cequoi ressemblera le monde post-COVID do know is that it will be distinctly different from what we haveest une supposition, mais ce que nous savons, cest quil sera been accustomed to, at least for the foreseeable future.nettement diffrent de tout cequoi nous tions habitus, du Over the many weeks of the shutdown, I have had themoins pour lavenir prvisible. opportunity to speak with dozens of our corporate membersJai eu loccasion, pendant le confinement, de mentretenir avec about how they were responding to the difficult circumstancesdes dizaines de membres sur la manire dont ils ragissaient aux and personal challenges encountered by their relocated employeescirconstances difficiles et aux dfis personnels rencontrs par and assignees. A common thread throughout those conversationsleurs employs muts. Le fil conducteur de ces conversations tait was how their service partners had stepped up to the plate,la faon dont leurs partenaires de service avaient pris les choses how they developed innovative, creative solutions to help solveen main, comment ils avaient dvelopp des solutions innovantes the challenges they were facing. You can read more about theet cratives pour relever les dfis auxquels ils faisaient face. Vous industrys rapid and comprehensive response to the outbreak inpouvez en savoir plus sur la rponse de lindustrielpidmie this issue of Perspectives. dans le prsent numro de Perspectives.Knowing that our members have been coming together toLe fait de savoir que nos membres se sont entraids pendant support each other through this crisis is a testament to thecette crise tmoigne de la rsilience de notre industrie et du resiliency of our industry and the power of the partnerships thatpouvoir des partenariats tablis au sein du CERC. Nous exist in CERC. We have fared well through the Respond phaseavons bien travers la phase derponse la pandmie. Il est of the pandemic. Now it is time for us to prepare for the slow andmaintenant temps de nous prparerla lente et progressive gradual Recovery stage that has already started unfolding across reprisequi a dj commenc dans de nombreux pays et de many countries and regions. nombreuses rgions.For the mobility industry in particular, this is a pivotal time inPour lindustrie de la mobilit en particulier, il sagit dune history. We are, after all, an industry that moves people acrosspriode charnire de lhistoire. Nous sommes aprs tout une bordersborders that have in some cases been locked shutindustrie qui dplace les gens au-del des frontiresdes to all but essential travel. We have seen a veritable tsunami offrontires qui, dans certains cas, ont t fermestous les cross-border movement shrink to a tiny, thin trickle during thisdplacements sauf les plus essentiels. Nous avons vu un vritable singular global event.tsunami de mouvements transfrontaliers se rduireun Yet while many businesses are suffering financial hardship fromminuscule et mince filet pendant cet vnement mondial. the downturn and will continue to struggle in the predictedPourtant, alors que de nombreuses entreprises souffrent de post-pandemic recession, I believe there are reasons for muteddifficults financires et continuerontse dbattre dans la optimism. As with any ongoing crisis, there will be many newrcession post-pandmique, je pense quil y a des raisons businesses and services created in response to this pandemic,dtre modrment optimiste. Comme lors de toute crise, de leading to novel new opportunities for mobility professionals.nombreuses nouvelles entreprises et de nouveaux services As the great Sir Winston Churchill once said, Never let a goodseront crs en rponsecette pandmie, ce qui ouvrira de crisis go to waste. Following his advice, now seems to be thenouvelles perspectives. 8PERSPECTIVES Summer 2020'