Justice committee  I'll just add, Mr. Boshcoff, that one of the challenges dealers face is that they put up a lot of barriers to protect the vehicles, they go through extensive processes to keep their keys in place, but once they've built those kinds of hard protective barriers and hard securities,

Justice committee  I'll leave it for the police to give a version of it, but I can say in the dealership case that there are very few. A very small percentage of vehicles are stolen from a dealership by a joyrider or in an amateur kind of scenario, because the barriers are just harder to get throug

Justice committee  I think you were referring to the 13% solved rate.

Justice committee  Yes, the solved rate. I believe that's from.... I'll find the exact reference for you and send it to the committee so that you have it.

Justice committee  Let me add to this that one of the messages we'd like to get through to the committee is that while this bill does start to highlight the problem, there have to be broader solutions. We're not the private sector purporting that overnight this is going to solve the problem.

Justice committee  Mr. Masse, I'd just to add to that that there is an element that we've talked of a bit about—Mr. Lee's comment—that this is a complicated issue. One of the most important provisions of the bill is to make auto theft a separate offence and make it identified as a separate offence.

Justice committee  From the car dealers perspective, one of the things we've been promoting and certainly trying to build awareness of is that once you identify something as a separate category of offence, you can start to build other tools into the equation that will help to resolve it. I don't th

Justice committee  Mr. Chair, I just have one note of thanks for the record. I want to thank the clerk's office for being so accommodating for the witnesses on short notice, and for being so easy to deal with.

Subcommittee on the Automotive Industry in Canada committee  I'll add to that from the car dealers' perspective. We employ 140,000 employees across the country and we have not experienced job losses yet. Speaking to your earlier analysis, last year we were tracking for one of the best years in automotive history, and right up until Novemb

Subcommittee on the Automotive Industry in Canada committee  Yes. I don't want to be partisan with this response, but on the domestic side of the industry the credit crunch only really came in November. Our initial meetings with Finance took place in November and December, and of course Finance responded with a credit facility because they

Finance committee  Hi. My name is Huw Williams, and I'm the director of public affairs with the Canadian Automobile Dealers Association. It has been a very interesting year in the car business, so we appreciate the opportunity to come and update you on the situation. As you know, we represent 3,

Finance committee  Yes, we've seen a broad array of Asian countries stop the imports. Australia has also done so, and the EU has moved in that direction as well. So you're looking at select examples in Africa and South America.

Finance committee  Yes. It's just one of those ridiculous anomalies that we're letting these cars come into the country while paying to take them off our roads.

Finance committee  I'm not familiar with the specific testimony that you referred to. I can say, generally speaking, that all around the world they've looked at programs to try to get rid of high-polluting vehicles. Here in Canada, the government came down on the side of one simple $300-program aim

Finance committee  It's no accident, and I congratulate Mr. Cooper on having the documents in front of him that are so relevant to the Scotiabank report. We'll share those with the rest of the committee members. In the finance industry, luxury vehicles are financed, and they're quite concerned in