How do we do that?
I think we have to do things like this. We have to have frank conversations among each other that are non-partisan and ask, do we like the jobs? Do we like the industry? Do we like the investments in Canada? If we do and if we value that EV transition, we know that the Canadian auto industry has always won when it can sell to American consumers.
What are the American regulators doing for that market? We should do the similar thing here.
Now, that's not to say that the Americans are going to take the lead. I think we have better auto drive and connected drive technology in this country. We have the upstream capabilities and the ability be a major battery player globally here.
However, if we jump out quicker than companies like Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada, which made 125,000 hybrids last year that don't qualify in any of the standards—we're going to try to go faster than Toyota—that means going into the arms of BYD and CATL. There's no Canadian content there and everybody there makes $2 an hour, when they get paid.