Mr. Speaker, it still does not answer the question. Why do Canadians not have a clear concrete policy in front of them? We have been asking for that. The Canadian Automotive Partnership Council was formed. It has been meeting but has not produced anything tangible for the public to digest.
More important, it does not address the fact that Canadians right now are producing vehicles less than the ratio they were before and compared to what they have been buying. The ratio now is somewhere around 1:5. If we lose the assembly plants we have in Windsor and Oakville, it will go to 1:2 and by the next year it could even go to 1:1.
The reality is the Auto Pact policy is what has created the past success of our industry. An example is the DaimlerChrysler Pillette Road, which was under the Auto Pact in the 1970s. The DCX minivan plant was in co-operation with the government at the time for Chrysler's restructuring. We also have Bramalea as a result of the FIRA rules. We also had the Ford and St. Thomas plant. Those were also--