Mr. Speaker, we have no agreement on a fuel efficiency standard with Canadian industry yet. Canadian industry of course only accounts for 20% of the vehicles that are purchased here in Canada. Would the hon. parliamentary secretary answer with regard to the other 80% purchased here in Canada but produced in the United States and in Mexico?
Why has the government not brought the U.S. and Mexico to the table in negotiating a continental standard for fuel efficiency, one that would allow the entire industry to abate its costs across the industry over a defined period of time and share that? Is it because this government does not have the credibility with the United States to bring the Americans to the table and bring them into a common continental agreement?