Currently under NAFTA, the required regional rule of origin is the highest of any agreement that the United States has signed. We would not want to add additional red tape and requirements at a national level or the like. We would like to continue to build on the effectiveness of NAFTA.
To the points you raised about investment, I think it's important we keep in mind that NAFTA's the framework under which we trade. Every day I fight for investment to come here to Canada. We do that together with Unifor together with our municipalities, and we do it with the people around the table.
If I look back over the last 10 years, Canada has done more to help us to build an investment base here by aligning our standards with the United States and by improving our border crossings than I could have imagined 10 years ago.
I look at the last short period of time, and I see some advancement in the auto innovation fund that was long needed and made a huge difference.
These are all things that are really important for us to continue to win investments, but that's what we do every day.
One of the things I mentioned is we purchase more parts from the United States than in Canada. We would prefer to buy our parts in Canada. Why? Because we have to buy American parts with these little Canadian dollars so it's much more expensive. It's a concern to us that we've seen a lot of the parts business moving south.
A flip side in this discussion is it's good to remind our colleagues in the United States that every time we make a purchase of those U.S. parts, a job is involved in that as well, and many American jobs are related to this trade relationship in producing vehicles on both sides of the border.
It's in our mutual interest to build on this. Can we improve upon it? Absolutely. Should we look at labour and environmental agreements within the agreement? Absolutely.