Subcommittee on the Automotive Industry in Canada committee  To echo that, it's the tier two and tier three, way down in the stream, so everything gets shifted 30 days. In part, we pay based on parts getting PPAPs. That's when we pay for the tools. Everybody has gone backwards. I will say that I think the suppliers are banking quite a bit of that interest or stress in the system based on the piece-cost when we actually write the cheque to buy the parts from them.

Subcommittee on the Automotive Industry in Canada committee  Briefly, the bottom line is that the structure kind of put a wall up around the U.S. relative to funding flow, and in that regard, they're looking to not have the American taxpayers shoot funds to other--non-U.S.--entities.

Subcommittee on the Automotive Industry in Canada committee  If you go back just a little way, if you look at our assembly plants, we were running full bore in our truck plant and very heavily in our car plants in Oshawa. That helped the situation due to product demand, really, in the U.S., because we ship 90% of our vehicles south. A lot of that dried up, and therefore you start to reduce your workforce, and you reduce your revenue, and there's a crippling effect.

Subcommittee on the Automotive Industry in Canada committee  Yes, just from a supplier-based perspective. We manufacture small to big automobiles, but because we manufacture very large automobiles, if our suppliers ship seats, steel, and frames, the parts need to be kept in general proximity to the manufacturing locations. That benefits the Canadian supply base as we introduce these new programs.