Thank you, Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Carrie, for getting the committee here. I think it's extremely important.
I turned on my radio one morning about a month and a half ago—maybe not quite that long ago, but just before the municipal campaign started—and heard some interesting news from the Conference Board of Canada. Congratulations, Mayor Gray, and to the entire Durham region. I think it speaks well for the work that has been done so far by getting governments, organizations, and business to work together. Congratulations also to you, Mr. Malcolmson, in your ability, as it were, to rein all the varying, disparate horses together to make this community a much stronger place.
As you know, I'm from Pickering, and we can only envy the kind of growth that you're seeing, but given that every blade of grass is precious in Pickering, we have no growth. Hopefully that will change in the days to come, and we'll be able to resolve those problems. I'm speaking for myself, of course.
Mr. Paterson, you discussed the issue of regulatory harmony with the United States. Is there the risk of re-importation problems, if you have identical standards? In other words, from a retail perspective—I'm putting on my former cap as someone who marketed for one of the companies—if the standards are identical and there is a cost advantage to building a car in Canada, or parts of it in Canada, and sending it to the United States, it could be sold from an American dealer back into Canada. Is there any risk that might also harm the business side of marketing various car companies?