There are two sides to this, and again, perhaps I'll ask Adriaan to comment on it in a moment. But let me start off by saying that certainly there's no other country I'd rather be in. The Canadian automotive marketplace last year grew, so it is unlike every other industrialized nation. There has been some fundamental health in the Canadian economy. And that's been the result of hard work by government and by industry over a great many years.
That said, the analysts and others are right, that we are in an integrated global economy, and when other trading partners begin to decline, it has an impact on every aspect of the Canadian economy. Specifically since the mid-sixties, in fact just about the time that Toyota first started doing business in Canada, we decided as a country that we wanted to create an integrated North American marketplace for vehicles, with manufacturing established to work on a north-south basis.
The plus for our Canadian facilities is that Toyota has decided to put vehicles into production in Canada that are popular with Canadian consumers. So if 50% of my sales this year come from our plants in Cambridge and Woodstock, that's a very big plus, and I think that helps those plants in a time of challenging economic conditions in the U.S. But there's no question, the plants could not exist without access to the U.S. marketplace, so any impact in the U.S. is going to take its toll on the Canadian auto sector. We are a little less exposed to it, but it's measured by comparators.
Adriaan, perhaps you can speak to the manufacturing side.