Transport committee  Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Good evening, everyone. I thank you for this opportunity to appear before you on the subject of automated vehicles and connected vehicles. Industry's effective and managed introduction of these technologies provides an opportunity to enable t

Finance committee  Yes. Maybe I can try to give a little clarity. If you are an employer and you provide recharging stations and you provide potentially cost-free charging, that is a taxable benefit. A good part of the value equation to those people considering the purchase of electric vehicles is

Finance committee  I can address that, if I may.

Finance committee  Right now, clearly, some of the vehicles out there are for the high-income group, but with all the models that are coming forward.... In 2011 there were about seven models available. There are now well over 30 models, and those models are becoming available to those income bracke

Finance committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, and thank you to the honourable members today for actually coming to town, so to speak. As president of the Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers' Association, I am pleased to be here representing Fiat Chrysler Canada, the Ford Motor Company of Canad

Transport committee  We have some concerns, simply because this is not a widespread issue. On top of that, vehicle manufacturers—my member companies—already engage in providing support in those circumstances and continue to work those out under the dealer agreements that exist between the vehicle man

Transport committee  I think we have to be very careful here in getting ahead of the U.S. Canada is not a large enough market to drive vehicle design. Also, there's this perception that we're behind other jurisdictions in terms of safety. When we talk about regulatory co-operation, harmonization, and

Transport committee  Again, our view is if the minister incurs a situation where they don't feel they're getting the right information or the information they're requesting as part of the investigation, then I don't think we have any issue with that. In other words, we triaged this whole bill as to t

Transport committee  I may stand corrected because I'm not that familiar with all the details in the United States, but I believe they'd have that power.

Transport committee  Maybe I can start. The Canada Consumer Product Safety Act is very different. In other words, there is no sophisticated recall process under that act like there is under the Motor Vehicle Safety Act. There is a provision, however, because that's lacking, that the minister could ob

Transport committee  Again, as we said, the reasonableness of that is...and as I said, I think there is some direction here in legal context. It's about the focus of what we are asking for, what the minister is asking for, be it related to the recall or the investigation that's under way. Again, this

Transport committee  Again, I think Bill S-2 has provisions that open avenues for us to bring more innovative technologies to Canada. We have to be careful. Let's be clear; simply because there's technology in other jurisdictions does not mean that it is the same as or equivalent to or better than ou

Transport committee  Since it's one of my members, I think in this particular case it is unusual for sure. Whether it's the subject company or other companies, in remote areas of the country like that, sometimes they'll approach it in different ways. Sometimes they'll send an actual certified mecha

Transport committee  I think it's fair to say that companies—whether it's trying to identify sales opportunities or whether it's how they conduct their business in terms of customer satisfaction—include things like recall response rates and so forth. The key point I wanted to make very clearly is tha

Transport committee  The way we look at it is it doesn't stop there. We go into registration files, and so forth. Companies spend a considerable amount of money trying to track down the right owner, whether it was first owner, second owner, or even third owner in some cases. Some of these things go b