International Trade committee  The tapes are rolling, but unfortunately corruption has been around forever. I agree that it shouldn't be there. Again, I think it's up to the companies to manage it. Really, I don't think there's anything you can do as a government to control it, because it's there. It shouldn'

International Trade committee  I agree with Mr. Bergan. I would have said something similar to that, but I would like to throw in again that you need to have a skilled and qualified workforce in Canada for what you do. Be the best at what you can do. Again, as I said, in our industry, we need to exceed indus

International Trade committee  To answer your question, again if you looked at the news yesterday, the CEO from Volkswagen got fired because basically the costs for their building a vehicle in Germany are really high. They do have some subsidiaries, like in Tennessee and Mexico, but they just don't have enough

International Trade committee  Okay.

International Trade committee  I'm not that well versed in them, but I know our members have participated and, again, our prime international market is also the U.S. and Mexico. The one thing I like that I've heard so far is that with Go Global, I think you're getting more just-in-time information rather than

International Trade committee  I've had a couple of minutes—

International Trade committee  Okay. I'm sorry. Thank you.

International Trade committee  Thank you very much for that. I want to mention that we are pretty well stand-alone when it comes to Buy American. Our reputation stands for itself, but we do get some problems. One thing that you could help us with, if you're looking for constructive suggestions to help us, is

International Trade committee  Yes.

International Trade committee  I would like to jump in. Our sentiments are similar to what the last gentleman said. We've had a lot of good workings with the EDC. When we have a lot of general meetings throughout the year, we've had EDC at a round table discussion with some of our major banks. The banks can d

International Trade committee  It has. Obviously there is Buy American, but our industry has a tremendous reputation globally, so we're a sought-after type of industry sometimes. Again, some of our Canadian companies now have American subsidiaries. Again, they are more satellite operations, and the main build

International Trade committee  Once again, thank you for having me on today. I'm sorry I couldn't be in Ottawa. We're very busy here in Windsor, and I'm very glad to report that. The Canadian Association of Moldmakers was formed in 1981. We basically had a lot of mold shops here in Windsor, and a lot of our c