Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Congratulations to all those who succeeded with J.D. Power and Associates. In a previous life, I worked for Toyota Motor Corporation in Toronto. We were selling some 65,000 units then. I left, and now they're selling about 170,000 units, which tells you how successful they can be without me.
I want to point out a couple of things that I think are of concern to the committee and to members on our side: the whole issue of access to the U.S. market with respect to...I believe you referred to FAST or NEXUS; the issue of providing products that are coming to and from the United States; and of course, the impact of the 90¢ dollar, not just on the manufacturing side but also obviously on the parts side.
Specifically, I spoke to Dennis DesRosiers some time ago regarding the efficiency of your industry and the overall lifeline of vehicles that you produce. Is there a danger right now that because you are producing products that last a lot longer, with warranties in many respects that are extremely generous, you may be in fact hitting a point of saturation that has little to do with currency but much more to do with the fact that in your products, as in the product I drive, which has 425,000 kilometres on it, with the same engine, the same transmission, you reach a point where the success of the industry may in fact be its downfall?
I'm not here to advocate for building lousy cars, but in fact there are only so many cars you can sell to a family that will last 8 to 10 years without having them return and buy your product down the road.
Maybe that's to David.