Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Minister, you've announced your new strategy for automotive, and I know you think it's going to work to create investment in Canada and create new production of vehicles. I honestly hope you're right, because we need that help.
What I want to ask you about is giving EV subsidies to American-made vehicles. I spent the weekend speaking with unemployed auto workers in my riding who worked at the Brampton facility. When I explained to them that Canadian tax dollars were going to subsidize the purchase of American EVs after their plant closed—it was supposed to build the Jeep Compass, and that production went to the United States—they were outraged, because Donald Trump has declared an economic war on our auto sector, and they lost their jobs because of it.
What do you have to say to those auto workers who I spoke to on the weekend about subsidizing American EVs?