Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank all our guests as well for their testimony here today. Sometimes I wonder if we have too many guests, because we don't have the opportunity to ask each of them a lot of questions.
My first question is for Mr. Darby on his discussion of the state of the supply chain. I'll give a quick example. I had the fortunate opportunity to view a company in my riding the last time we were in our ridings. It's called Autoliv and has 120 employees. It makes seat belts, as a matter of fact, over 53%, I believe, of the products. They are a company that is here in Canada, and they are a company in the United States as well.
Employee-wise, they had to raise the pay for those employees in order to attract what they need there, and at this particular moment, fortunately, they're at that level. The problem is that when they raise that rate and compete with their American counterparts, they look at it roughly every two years—that's what he was saying—to see whether or not it's viable.
Though Canadian employees certainly seem to have better quality control, from what I gather, when you start factoring in the increased costs of the carbon tax, not just on what they have to pay for the shipping but in their own buildings, and when property taxes are higher—as I know, coming from a municipal background—because it's easier to hit those industries than it is to hit the individuals who are in your community....
Mr. Darby, you say you're worried. Is that a strong enough word for this or should it almost be considered a crisis at this time?