Mr. Chair, yes, I would agree. We are negotiating from a position of weakness. I mean, we were told in the last election that the Prime Minister was the man with the plan and would negotiate a deal by July 21. It is now December. We do not have a deal. Clearly, Canadians were sold a bill of goods and did not get what they supposedly wanted when they elected this minority Liberal government. For 10 years now, the Liberals have known that the auto industry was at risk. This is Trump 2.0, not Trump 1.0, so they might have seen this coming, had they been paying attention a little more closely.
What makes this worse is the fact that we are creating policies at home that are doubling down on the harm to our auto sector, policies like the EV mandate. I do not understand it. The Liberals need to scrap that immediately. If they do not, they should get out of the way. Conservatives will do it.