Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Industry. He knows, as do Canadians, that the auto industry in Canada comprises 325,000 direct and indirect jobs.
Just before the last federal election the present Minister of National Defence, when he was Minister for International Trade, confirmed that the government had no plans to eliminate one of the linchpins of the auto pact, the 7.3% tariff on new non-auto pact cars coming into Canada.
Will the minister confirm that there has been no flip-flop on the 7.3% tariff and that he has no intention of gutting the auto pact by eliminating this tariff?