Transport committee  Very quickly, I think Brian is correct that we need to anticipate and that we need to have clear leadership in different areas. These issues are complex. It comes down to issues of drivers maxing out their time when they do get into a holdup situation. We need infrastructure like

Transport committee  I would say that over time we have constantly faced disruptions in the supply chain. Famously, the automotive supply chain is a just-in-time supply chain, and there's no inventory on the floor of our vehicle plants. We count on everything arriving just in time. That has been ch

Transport committee  It is.

Transport committee  No.

Transport committee  You don't have to convince my company. We have them pouring toward us. If there are people who have orders, the only reasons people are getting slow orders are the other things we were talking about, like supply chain issues with semiconductor chips and the like. You have a shor

Transport committee  I don't think Honda would mind my pointing out that we have a partnership for electric vehicle development and batteries in North America. At General Motors, we decided to go to pure battery electric and not skip steps with gasoline vehicles that also have a little bit of batter

Transport committee  First of all, I completely agree with what Mr. Kingston just said. Being able to move Canadians to electric vehicle purchases is not simply a function of pushing demand. My company is all in on electrification. We're going to have all of our light-duty vehicles electrified by 203

Transport committee  We were first among the auto companies to make a significant processing announcement, but we're certainly not the only one. There are a number that are moving quickly. We see that different provinces are moving in this area, but they're doing so because of their constitutional re

Transport committee  I will answer your question in English. The investments we're making are being made with our suppliers and in joint venture. These are new supply chains in many ways. In the electric battery world, much of the supply of what has gone into electric batteries has been sourced t

Transport committee  I'll chime in. I'll build a bit on something Dave Miller said. We are facing waves of inconsistency, so you get what you plan for. In terms of resiliency, we work very closely with incredible partners in the rail industry and others to be able to very quickly respond when things

Transport committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you for the invitation to speak with the committee and for your interest in our story at General Motors Canada. As you may be aware, GM Canada is making large investments in Canada with the reopening of our Oshawa plant and the transformation of our

Industry committee  I agree entirely with Don. There are always opportunities for countries that are smart and really make the basis for success in their areas. Jim talked about some of those areas, and we've talked about some of them ourselves. The other big factor is that the auto sector is not o

Industry committee  I can tell you that I had occasion to use it just recently, because were participating in a research program that the government put forward to improve the site. They asked users to walk through different scenarios and give feedback on how easy or hard it was to use. In particu

Industry committee  We found some very good ways to improve it. I give the government credit for going out and looking for ways to improve it.

Industry committee  Well, I'm not a ventilator expert, but General Motors was able to help a company called Ventech in Seattle to essentially tear apart their ventilator down to 700 parts and use our international supply chain to resource those parts. Don Walker is making some of them, and so are ot