I was here for the committee. Mr. Verwey was beside me. They could not predict the price of his steel. He was getting fluctuations in price and in cost. At the end of the day, he faced, at one point, a 35% cost increase on his prices because of the volatility that was out there.
Multiply that out by renovations that are being made in the small communities. One instance is right in Charlottetown with the new Mitsubishi store. You're seeing them happen in Peterborough and in Cochrane, Alberta, where you're from—you're familiar with our Mr. Baum out there—and that's a real problem.
In summary, we've dodged the bullet. We don't want to face it again. We need certainty. We need price certainty. We need cost certainty. The price of cars and consumers.... It's very elastic. The price goes up; volume goes down. That's Economics 101. It is a concern to our members.
Again, we thank you for having helped us dodge that bullet. Hopefully, this bill will enable us to do it again.