I was pleased to meet and discuss with you personally these types of dynamics in Guelph, at the Linamar centre for innovation. At that event, we talked about how a job in assembly is usually worth three or four...in auto parts that feed that plant. When you make a car, it's like a “jigsaw puzzle” operation, where 75% of those components are made at supplier factories.
In a plant like Brampton, when it's going at full hum, 3,000 workers, whom Lana represents, are making the cars that I buy. There are about 9,000 or 10,000 workers at auto parts facilities who are making the components that go into that jigsaw puzzle.
We were all waiting for that Compass. In support of the argument that Lana just made, let me add that the $13-billion announcement included over $600 million for retooling Belvidere, Illinois. In addition to the amount that was spent in retooling, and icing workers and suppliers in Brampton, they're investing another $600 million into a product that has a 6% or 7% profit margin.
Productivity is not the reason behind that decision.