Transport committee  Mr. Chairman, I think if you were to review those documents you'd also notice that the documents explicitly state that there wasn't a defect in the vehicle. There was one set of rubber floor mats in Venza that were out of specification, which we were able to determine and we took

Transport committee  Let's go back to that chronology for a second. At the beginning of October, both Toyota and Transport Canada were looking at certain field reports and trying to make some determination as to what was happening in respect of Venza. The first cases we had, including the Transport C

Transport committee  No. Allow me to just break up the question so that we can be clear about this. As a general rule, ultimately all of the pedals that were recalled used the same polymer and are of the same general design. The vehicles that were being reviewed in the European case were not the same

Transport committee  Absolutely.

Transport committee  What I think it comes down to, on the part both of companies and of the government, is to put as many technical resources as we can on the identification of those problems and on determining whether or not a safety defect actually exists.

Transport committee  Well, obviously when we've provided it to you, we've waived that.

Transport committee  I can't speak to what may have been transmitted between Europe and any other part of the world. With respect to Europe and Canada, there was no direct communication on this issue. I might say that as Toyota Europe was looking at it, they were looking specifically at two models,

Transport committee  It's in its drafting stages. It is what it is, which is--

Transport committee  No. It's--

Transport committee  There's none at this point. It's waived.

Transport committee  I wouldn't ordinarily receive the technical information directed at European distributors.

Transport committee  Yes, although Toyota in the United States indicated that it did not believe it was in violation of legislation. Beyond that, I'm afraid that I can't tell you very much. I'm not familiar with the provisions of the U.S. law. The one thing I would like to point out, however, is tha

Transport committee  One, there was no cover-up. Two, as I just mentioned with respect to the reference to the TI that wasn't received in Canada, the first cases we had were the subject of a field technical report in October, but we couldn't replicate the condition. We didn't know what it was. Th

Transport committee  Thank you. I guess the point I was trying to make earlier—and if I didn't, let me go back and clarify the record—is that if I look, for example, at the contacts we've had, simply with our customer interaction centre during the first part of this year, January through April, ther

Transport committee  We began with the issue of a complaint and I just wanted to be clear that in our view--