Thank you.
We surveyed our members. If I can put it in a slightly different context, our concern after the 2001 repealing of the Auto Pact was that Canada entered, I think, into negotiations with South Korea in 2006. South Korea is a major auto producer and exporter, and giving preferential treatment to some vehicles in Canada would be a big issue for our members, who have to compete in a very competitive market. Then adding the CETA, the agreement with the European Union, brought in not only Korean vehicles but also European vehicles, which really comprise the rest of the industry, for the most part. So what was missing there was a deal with Japan.
So we were saying, look, we're concerned about the implications this might have, not only for our members for the market here and for competing imports from Japan, but also in the longer term for how investment might be perceived in the Canadian market if the government is not prepared to give preferential treatment to Japanese vehicles as well.
So when the Canada-Japan trade deal was announced, I think that was a big step in the right direction as far as we were concerned.