Good evening to members of the committee and to our two witnesses. Thank you very much for coming to appear in front of us today.
We are undertaking a study of the Canadian automobile sector and some of the challenges it faces, and your testimony will help us write our report and recommendations that will be submitted to the House of Commons by the end of March. So thank you very much for coming.
Today we have Stephen Beatty, managing director of Toyota Canada Inc., and Adriaan Korstanje, who is the general manager, external affairs, of Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada Inc. Thank you both very much for coming.
We'll start with 10-minute opening statements. Then we will proceed to comments and questions from the members of our committee.
Please proceed.