Currently there is an ability to import vehicles directly into Canada beyond the regular Canadian dealership network. In fact there is a government-supported website, which I was looking at yesterday, where they partner with Canadian Tire, which does the vehicle inspection for any vehicle that you want to source out of the United States and bring into Canada.
It is always a concern. We would like to see all vehicles sold through our dealer networks. Our biggest concern is that if our regulations get out of sync, we will no longer able to sell or produce certain types of vehicles in Canada, because our regulations become difficult. A reality is that our market here in Canada is only 10% of the overall North American marketplace. So if we end up with disharmonized regulations, what ends up happening is either we have to stop selling certain vehicles in Canada, or we have to stop producing them here.
What will happen is people simply go on those websites. If we remind ourselves that we're in a free trade zone in North America, those regulations might be trying to restrict things in Canada, but the vehicles come in anyway.
We threw our lot in with the United States in North America to have an incredible advantage with the Auto Pact. Because of that, we have thousands of jobs and huge investment that comes to Canada because of the integrated nature. One of the challenges we have is to make sure that we have good, strong standards, but they must be harmonized at the same time. As I said, we can have strong standards; we just need to make sure that they're aligned. Otherwise we end up with no advantage, and certainly a great disadvantage, in terms of the employment and the benefits we get in Canada.