If I were to characterize it, I would say right now we're at a fork in the road, to build on a really bad metaphor for vehicles in this case, and that's certainly what it feels like.
I will tell you that two months ago there was a view that this was going to be the death knell of the Canadian auto industry potentially, where if we were not going to land what was calculated to be somewhere in the ballpark of $300 billion of investments from OEMs and supplier firms siting these projects around the world, mostly in China and Europe, with Canada being left behind.... The last two months have shown us that there is still fight here. We still have an industry and a competitive one at that. Automakers want to build here and for good reason. I would have been more pessimistic two months ago before bargaining, but now I'm much more optimistic.
As I said in my opening remarks, I'm not going to dwell on the last two months because they don't matter anymore. We got good news, but unless we're going to put policies in to practice.... Despite what others are suggesting, we can't simply put bums in seats in EVs and think we've solved our problem. We've only solved half the problem. This is a plum industry that generates incredible wealth for this country with incredibly good jobs. If we don't put those pieces together, the production side, the supply chain side and the incentive side, we'll have missed a huge opportunity for us, and that would be terrible.