Thank you, and thank you, everyone, for being here today.
It's all very interesting and somewhat complicated. I'm kind of new on this file, so I'm learning a lot.
I want to start with Mr. Volpe to try to figure out exactly what the auto parts manufacturers want. It sort of plays into what Mr. De Nardi just said about producing something that the customer wants.
When I was a kid, we didn't have any cars, or I assume even parts, here in Canada from Japan. Then we had a crisis with gas prices, and suddenly Toyota, Nissan and Honda were making small fuel-efficient cars, which were very, very popular in the seventies. It seems to me, from my uneducated eye, that they used that beachhead to develop a broad impact into the North American market.
It seems that you consider it as a non-tariff barrier, that because we produce big heavy cars that aren't fuel-efficient, we are being cheated somehow by the Japanese. I assume, yes, they are non-tariff barriers, but perhaps we should be looking at that and making something that the Japanese market wants.
It's like California doubling down on emission standards in the seventies because of smog. They made those standards, and the North American market capitulated because California was a big customer.
I'm wondering if you could comment on that. Maybe I'm off base, but I'm trying to understand this.