Mr. Speaker, certainly the auto industry is not in the dire circumstances that my friend portrays.
Last year in Canada we produced 2.6 million automobiles. We are among the best people in the world on automobile assembly.
Frankly, the main issues facing the automotive industry and manufacturing are competitiveness issues, issues that the Liberals never previously addressed. The state of infrastructure, the state of safety, harmonization of regulatory standards, the development of a dominant fuel standard with the United States, all of the issues that languished under the Liberal government we are dealing with.