Yes, I would.
I'm not an economist, but I travel a lot and I look at the auto industry all around the world. As I said at the outset, this is happening everywhere. Virtually every major industrial nation is assisting its auto industry, with a view to helping them survive this very difficult period.
Let's set that aside for a minute and look at the economic life of a family. What are the two biggest things you buy in your life? They're a house and a car. When you buy a house, most of the money you spend on the house stays where the house is. The building material is pretty local; all the labour that built the house is local; the lot and the land are local, and so on. So buying a house is an investment in your community.
When you buy a car, a lot of the money you pay for the car winds up back in the locale where the car and its parts were built.
By the way, you can't really separate the parts industry from the assembly industry; it's really not practical to think of having a parts industry without having an assembly industry. The parts industry will go where the assembly plants are. If we let that go, as a Canadian, I would have to ask, are we really happy with exporting that much of our wealth to other countries on an ongoing basis?