Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to first thank our presenters. Mr. Dias and Ms. Craig, thank you so much. Thank you for the quality work that your members of Unifor do, as well as for the investments that you've made here in Canada. It's great to hear the success that you're having with the exports and what you're doing with the Ford plant in Oakville.
My questions stem around the consultation process and what happened prior to some of the agreements that have been made.
Ms. Craig, in The Globe and Mail article that was published last fall, you were quoted as stating that Ford sees the TPP as a setback and that it should have mirrored the United States.
I'd like to know from your perspective and from meetings you may have had with the previous government, what negotiations took place, what meetings, what inputs you had into that process, before coming to that agreement. Could you also let us know what you meant by “setback” as you explained in your presentation?