International Trade committee  First off, if we can't preserve our foundation, which is the integrated supply chain on a North American basis.... That's what adds to our competitiveness. Even though we are the highest-cost jurisdiction, we still see a business case to be made so far. That can quickly pivot if

International Trade committee  To achieve that reciprocity, particularly in those countries where they don't have tariffs.... As I mentioned, they have industrial strategies that are focused on things like non-tariff barriers. Japan and Korea have been so astute at putting in place non-tariff barriers as par

International Trade committee  It really is.

International Trade committee  It's not very many at this point in time because they don't meet the Canadian vehicle safety standards, as an example. We have plants, and there you have production capacity in some of these countries—Brazil, particularly. Most of the products that are produced meet, for those do

International Trade committee  First off, in our industry, as I mentioned, we are so highly integrated on a North American basis that NAFTA is the absolute priority. We've said this to the Prime Minister and we've said this to this committee, as an example, as well. That's what we need to settle first. Again

International Trade committee  Actually, we ship very little. We roughly peaked in 2014 when these programs went into place. When I say Canadian exports, it's roughly about 23,000 vehicles, and that dropped precipitously in 2015, and further in 2016, for instance. We're now down to virtually zero exports. We'r

International Trade committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good morning, honourable members. The members of the CVMA are supportive of fair and balanced trade opportunities. To achieve this, we submit the following as key provisions necessary to create the proper foundation for free and open trade in automotive

Transport committee  Yes, I would just add to the Norway experience that it's true that government played a big role in incentives, but these were not one-time incentives; these were incentives at many levels. Some were financial, but some are not financial. They estimate that the incentive every yea

Transport committee  That's absolutely right. Much of the technology, the design, is proprietary. Keep in mind how different vehicles are in their design. I don't think you'll ever see just a swap system. Pilot programs have been tried in Israel and other places, and they haven't worked. By the way,

Transport committee  Certainly, I think that contracts such as that should be in lay language and should be understandable. Second, our companies must comply with all applicable laws. Whether it's PIPEDA or CASL, that's what we must comply with. That's what we do, and that's what we're going to do in

Transport committee  I think the initial step will be commercial vehicles and taxi fleets. That way they have more control over the fleet. Generally I think it's safe to say that for those initial stages, those fleets will be self-insured by the companies that own those fleets. That's the way it will

Transport committee  Well, first off, you'll have a stepped process in terms of automated driving systems. Usually we use the definitions under the international Society of Automotive Engineers. They have five definitions for technology, from essentially zero or one through to five. Level 5 is fully

Transport committee  My advice would be to continue what you're doing, but one thing we have to be sure to avoid is the introduction of impediments by lack of coordination, lack of consistency. Between Canada and the United States, vehicles move back and forth across the border. There's really no b

Transport committee  I can tell you how we manufacture vehicles. Because we're a highly integrated industry, we move things back and forth across the border as many as six or seven times a day toward the final product. We are true multimodal companies, in the sense that we'll use trucks, we'll use ra

Transport committee  Perhaps I can take a stab at that. First off, with these technologies, it won't be next year or perhaps the next. It's going to be a slow introduction. We don't need to have ZEVs as the only ones—in fact, they probably all won't be ZEVs to begin with—but we certainly see electri