Transport committee  Mr. Jean, I would love to be able to move immediately from, you know, the first hint—

Transport committee  What I'm saying is that I wish I were able to move faster under the specific circumstances of this case--

Transport committee  Under the specific circumstances, we moved as promptly as we possibly could.

Transport committee  In the specifics of the identification of issues in the field and in transmission of the information back into engineering, and the subsequent steps that were followed, I'm confident that what has happened here was timely, but I recognize that it hasn't given the perception of th

Transport committee  So let me just go back to the technology that we're talking about here. The determination in Europe at the time was that it wasn't a safety defect, and that determination was made because of the nature of the notchiness or slow-to-return condition in the pedal. But that was somet

Transport committee  Toyota--

Transport committee  Right. So the answer to the question is that we became aware of the situation in Europe with the documentation that we were provided in support of the regulatory filing in Canada.

Transport committee  Immediately prior to.

Transport committee  Yes.

Transport committee  Well, Mr. Jean, I guess there are two aspects of the question. One is that we acted as soon as we had knowledge of a safety defect.

Transport committee  The knowledge of an issue is different from the knowledge of a safety defect.

Transport committee  Again, at that time, Toyota Motor Corporation was investigating the pedals that had been recovered from the field.

Transport committee  If we're talking about suppliers to manufacturing, again, I don't have contact with them, so I'm not aware of that communication.

Transport committee  No. There's certainly no instruction to do that.

Transport committee  No. In fact, that meeting was established for the purposes of introducing the entire regulatory staff at Toyota Canada to the Transport Canada officials, with a view to ensuring that there was a full flow of communication on a regular basis between the company and Transport Canad