International Trade committee  Also, the skills requirements are changing now, and we're competing against other high-tech sectors for valuable employees who have good training and experience. We have to pick up the pace in the way that we attract people to the industry generally.

International Trade committee  We build medium-duty trucks through our sister company, Hino. We currently have a heavy-duty truck powered by fuel cells that we're using in a demonstration in the U.S., so there is some possibility that this will also develop.

International Trade committee  The medium-duty trucks are being produced here. The heavy-duty truck is a pilot right now, coming out of Detroit.

International Trade committee  Scott is being a little modest. TMMC is the largest manufacturing operation in Toyota globally by volume. It's been a substantial increase.

International Trade committee  I think it's fair to say that we already do manufacture substantially in the U.S. Toyota's operations have taken us into states such as Indiana, Kentucky, Texas, and beyond. We have design and engineering facilities in California and Detroit. We have a very strong on-the-ground l

International Trade committee  I think it's also important to understand that every one of our member companies manufactures in the NAFTA region. The experiences we have in importing or exporting from Canada are the same experiences other member companies have with their operations in the U.S. or Mexico, if th

International Trade committee  Speaking on behalf of Toyota, it certainly is increasing, and investments continue to be made, as Scott has identified. The same is true at Honda. I think Hanif may want to expand on that.

International Trade committee  It's important to remember that if the costs of compliance in a revised NAFTA become too high, the external duty rate the U.S. applies to cars is 2.5%, so a cost increase beyond 2.5% might very well lead some manufacturers to decide to relocate manufacturing out of the region. Th

International Trade committee  Perhaps I could start from a general plane. From a manufacturing standpoint, I think every vehicle manufacturer would say the same thing to you—that we are not hung up about where you set the bar on standards, but we do want to have as large a consumer marketplace as we possibly

International Trade committee  In the auto industry we already work toward very broad-based standards but use different technologies to achieve those technology outcomes. What is very important is not the specifics of the technology in the vehicle, but the protocol for communication car to car. Amongst the oth

International Trade committee  I think there is an opportunity, since we're going back to the table to have those negotiations, to address some of those areas that were not dealt with at the time of the original free trade agreement and to do it in a constructive way that creates not only opportunity but also

International Trade committee  If I may answer, one of the things we look at the regulatory cooperation initiative under way to look at existing regulations and how they line up. That's one activity, and I think it's a valid one, but it probably isn't the more significant piece of this puzzle. As we're movin

International Trade committee  Again, from the standpoint of the way our vehicles perform, I would say that they will roam in both markets, so it's covered by part of your existing data package, but above and beyond the cost of the data itself is the question of how you treat the privacy of the data that's flo

International Trade committee  —when you move between jurisdictions. Again, those issues of privacy and security, I think, lend themselves to that type of North American strategy. We can handle the commercial side of it, but that sort of legal framework in which it operates, I think, is very important for gov

International Trade committee  Again, across the industry, our companies are working with a variety of suppliers, including a number of Canadian suppliers. There certainly has been a lot of spin-off from the BlackBerry group into organizations such as QNX, but beyond them into companies with security technolog