The auto industry has been building cars and employing Canadians for 125 years. If you go back to the foundation of the industry, of course, we used to have significant trade barriers, so manufacturers would put a facility here to overcome those barriers and build in this market. Over time, as we got to the Auto Pact in the sixties, it was recognized that this is deeply inefficient. If we actually got rid of tariffs and created an integrated North American market, we could lower the costs of production, build a vehicle for one North American market and move it back and forth across the border.
That's what happened in the sixties when we started to remove those barriers and encourage that supply chain. The result, and we reference this stat regularly, is that a part or a component can cross the Canada-U.S. or U.S.-Mexico border seven or eight times before it's installed in a finished vehicle. That has been the foundation of the success of this sector. It's currently under challenge because of U.S. section 232 tariffs on the industry, but rules-based, open trade is what has enabled this industry to thrive in Canada.