Thank you, Chair, for this meeting.
Your Excellency, it's wonderful to see you here. Some people have talked about this as a golden age of Canada-Japan relations.
Perhaps it began with the late Prime Minister Abe's, visit. It was really a landmark visit for Canada and Japan to look at the steps leading towards the Indo-Pacific strategy, your own free and open Indo-Pacific strategy, as well as our action plan.
In your time here, we really have taken great steps. Thank you for your leadership, and thank you for the friendship that you have and are fostering between Canada and Japan. It really has been remarkable in your tenure here. We hope for 10 more years—if you could just tell your foreign minister that when you get a chance.
I will follow up a little bit on Mr. Chong's question.
Is Canada still seen as an important, significant and optimistic investment opportunity in the automotive sector for Japan? Is there still a sense of positivity with respect to automobile producers moving to the future?