Thank you so much, Mr. Beatty and Mr. Korstanje, for coming this evening.
The more we hear, the more I'm beginning to feel that this is like trying to land a plane on the Hudson, to be candid. From what I'm hearing, everything that's required to bring some resolution to this has to be in as equally perfect alignment as those things that have caused the problem in the first place.
You spoke of a number of ideas that might promote sales, might help the industry. Frankly, we've heard those ideas before. I'm aware that when you opened your plant in Woodstock in December, rather than two shifts that had been planned, it was down to one shift, and rather than 2,200 or 2,300 people, it was 1,100 or 1,200 people. I'm under the impression this is not just a recent phenomena, this downturn. It has been ongoing for a while, for a number of years. Then I found a document dated October 2007 that the CVMA had produced, with certain features in this document, recommendations to help the industry.
My question is this. Have you been aware of this oncoming problem for a while, and if so, how long? Have you made representations to any government--the previous Liberal government or this government--for a national auto strategy, indeed a North American auto strategy, given the integration of the industry?