Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you very much, Mr. Lewenza and Mr. Stanford, for coming here today.
Before I begin, I would like to suggest to my Conservative colleague across the way that asking key witnesses about a long-term plan, or the lack thereof, for the auto sector in this country is not at all partisan politics and is in fact exactly why we are here.
I will also say that no arrangement can be perfect, but I applaud the spirit of compromise that the CAW and General Motors just showed. I find it completely inappropriate that a colleague here proceeded to attack that arrangement. Again, I stress that we are in a time of crisis and we need to be applauding, not attacking, efforts at compromise, and we, everyone around this table, regardless of our parties, should be working together, not alleging partisan politics and playing games.
Having said all of that, I do have a couple of tough questions I wanted to ask.
First off, in regard to your negotiations, we've looked at material from General Motors and we've looked at the material Ford has given us. In terms of forecasts for auto sales in this country, were you using forecasts in your negotiations about what we expect to see in overall industry units being sold and what we're looking at in 2009-10 compared to 2008?