diff --git a/broker/commands.py b/broker/commands.py
index b4f165a6..a19ed981 100644
--- a/broker/commands.py
+++ b/broker/commands.py
@@ -156,12 +156,14 @@ def provider_cmd(ctx, *args, **kwargs):  # the actual subcommand
 def cli(version):
     """Command-line interface for interacting with providers."""
     if version:
+        from importlib.metadata import version
+
         from packaging.version import Version
-        import pkg_resources
         import requests
 
-        broker_version = pkg_resources.get_distribution("broker").version
-        # check the latest version publish to PyPi
+        broker_version = version("broker")
+
+        # Check against the latest version published to PyPi
         try:
             latest_version = Version(
                 requests.get("https://pypi.org/pypi/broker/json", timeout=60).json()["info"][