International Trade committee  Yes. Absolutely. One thing in our industry, and I'm sorry to be rather focused on my industry, is that if we're going to export vehicles, we pretty much have to batch them together and send them through the United States, outbound from U.S.-based ports. We have capacities, primar

International Trade committee  Right now, as I mentioned, the situation in the parts industry is that we generally have a higher level of U.S. parts content and therefore related jobs in Canadian-built vehicles. The question becomes what the nature of that legislation or those policies would be. It's hard to s

International Trade committee  The border issue is exactly as Maryscott says. Language, how we say it, does make a difference. Smart, efficient, productive borders are things that we pursue in our discussions with the U.S. There is still room.... I mean, we talked about the regulatory cooperation council. Th

International Trade committee  That is indeed it. We're very much aware of CETA and something that we supported. Why? Because when it was negotiated, it recognized the integration of our industry. It set down placeholders, if you will, for the accumulation of content that goes into our vehicles vis-à-vis NAFTA

International Trade committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Good afternoon, honourable members. It is indeed a pleasure to be back, and I'm very grateful for the opportunity to appear before you again today. As you know, I'm here and pleased to represent our member companies, Fiat Chrysler, Ford, and

International Trade committee  Our view is that it has to get done. We account for roughly 25% of the traffic that goes across the Windsor-Detroit gateway, and our view is that it has to get done. It is absolutely necessary. When you think about it, it's part of the NAFTA corridor, right from Mexico City thro

International Trade committee  The only outstanding one right now is Ford Motor Company, and I think they have until October 31 to do that, and then they have to ratify beyond that. Fiat Chrysler and General Motors are now fully ratified. It's passed, and they're good to go.

International Trade committee  You hit the nail on the head. The key challenge for us is to keep what we have. As I mentioned, we have a seven to nine job multiplier, so if you lose one assembly job, there are seven or nine others in the economy who also lose their jobs. The key is to keep what we have. Fir

International Trade committee  We support free trade and we support trade that provides benefit in our industry. CETA is a very good example of a modern class A type of agreement that recognizes the integration of our industry. We do support free trade, but we think that the TPP has some aspects that are not

International Trade committee  That's because we are such a highly integrated industry. The integration started in 1965 under the Auto Pact. Under the Auto Pact, there were principles that led to the full integration of our industry, and that literally led to tens of thousands of jobs in Canada. Now we have

International Trade committee  Yes. First off, on currency manipulation, there are several countries within the TPP that have exhibited that manipulation in the past, such as Japan, Korea, and China. When I speak about the tariff, what I'm referring to is the tariffs that were negotiated by the United States

International Trade committee  That's correct. We represent the traditional automakers.

International Trade committee  I'm not sure I understand your question, Mr. Dhaliwal.

International Trade committee  That is one of the things that actually came out of the negotiations. It's been our experience in other bilateral agreements or plurilateral agreements in the auto sector to have similar mechanisms to address things when things go wrong. As an example, we have seen this happen i

International Trade committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, and good morning, honourable members. Thank you very much for the opportunity to provide our perspective on the negotiation of the TPP. For 90 years, the CVMA has represented Canada's leading manufacturers who assemble vehicles here in Canada.