Industry committee  As is shocking to everyone in this room, the decisions are not made in the local banks here in Windsor any more about how our accounts are allowed to function. When these issues go up to Toronto, to the banking credit managers there, they just shake their heads and ask us, “Are y

Industry committee  We've registered in the last five years five patents, and we're named as co-inventors on numerous patents with our customers. We're supposed to have intellectual property protection through copyright of our designs, but our customers, great Canadian companies like Magna Internati

Industry committee  Even the non-automotive customers have learned now. Engineers from moulders that do custom moulding for tier ones or for automotive plants move to the Rubbermaids of the world or the Scotts in Ohio. And now Temecula, California, which we used to build for, is exercising PPAP as w

Industry committee  Sure. There's no lien law in Ontario that we're aware of, and we have done research, that provides us with security protection unless we get our customer to agree to signing the lien. So we're somewhat limited there. EDC has again--and EDC is a fantastic tool--been very careful

Industry committee  I'd be happy to start. Echoing the comments that have been made, the financing is a tremendous challenge. I'm using the adjective “tremendous”; you were asking if this is a crisis. This is definitely a crisis. It's not a typical downswing; this is not a pattern that's been rep

Industry committee  Thank you, and welcome to Windsor. Windsor is often looked at as an automotive town and automotive assembly town, but according to the Windsor-Essex Development Commission statistics, there are more people employed by the plastics and tool-and-die sector in Windsor than there a