You have enough information to understand the impact of these increases. The price of gas has jumped 30¢, the dollar is climbing from 80¢ to 90¢ and interest rates have risen 0.5% in the past six or seven weeks... You definitely have indicators that, if there is an increase, such and such a thing will occur. You already have those indicators, because you've experienced it. I understand that it's not up to your department to make that decision or to transpose these charts.
We've previously witnessed plant closings and other repercussions of an increase in the dollar, rising interest rates or higher gas prices. I believe it's up to Industry Canada to tell the minister that, if such and such a thing occurs again, the matter will have to be seriously examined.