Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Just on a point of order, I hope that in the future, if we have interruptions to guests, I don't become the victim of losing time for that. It should be equitably shared across the table. I'll move on from that.
With regard to the industry, and looking at the history of it, it was made by strategic visions and decisions, and it was actually created by tariff and trade barriers that Canada imposed to actually get branch plants from the United States to be incubated in Canada. We find ourselves today without that bold strategy that created the industry. The Auto Pact was one of the most successful, if not the most successful, trade moments in Canadian history, because we still stand on that footprint which has now diminished. Ironically that was killed through NAFTA through a challenge by Japan, which now wants preferential status for importation and development, when we can't even actually ship into Japan because of non-tariff barriers. It's just amazing.
Ms. Craig very quickly, what does it do for you at the table advocating for Canadian investment when we know, for example, even on this, that despite a trade agreement with the United States and Mexico, they are actually negotiating a 25-year advantage in this trade agreement, when we have five years, and Malaysia got 12 years, for crying out loud? How do we actually negotiate at the table knowing the advantages—not only in money, dollars, but in trade advantages—all go to our neighbours?