International Trade committee  I'm not sure we still use this, but historically we've been the most diversified automotive parts supplier. We cover pretty much the entire value chain aside from a few small sectors like tires, windshield glass, and so on. Today we're in a position where we're looking at how to

International Trade committee  You have my apologies. I don't think I'm in a position to answer that effectively and provide advice to them.

International Trade committee  He certainly was when he left, yes.

International Trade committee  I'm not sure that's entirely contingent just on TPP. Going forward and at least for the foreseeable future, that looks like the probable case, but it's based on a variety of competitiveness factors that I think the government and the industry are working hard to understand. They'

International Trade committee  Our investment decisions still are highly driven around where our customers locate their assembly operations.

International Trade committee  Not necessarily. I think if they move to Malaysia, it depends on their requirements for proximity. It depends on the types of components that we manufacture. Where things that are well defined in one of the schedules in this agreement for larger assemblies, things like stampings,

International Trade committee  Actually, we haven't experienced significant difficulty in taking people, but what we have found is that as our business has developed over the early period, what we want to do is use local resources in order to operate in those countries. We're really only taking our culture and

International Trade committee  Kyle, I wish I could answer that question, but the question of whether or not we've considered Canada not joining is probably best directed at our director of trade compliance. Ultimately, I expect there has been some discussion. I'm just not in a position to answer that.

International Trade committee  We've experienced some difficulties moving into some new countries. As I said earlier, we're operating in 29 countries today. What we typically find is that they're not as mature, so their tax rules differ for us. That usually doesn't pose so much challenge on the investment fron

International Trade committee  Thank you. I'm probably going to be briefer than Joy was. Good morning, Chair, and honourable members. Thank you for this opportunity to appear before the committee to comment on the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement. I'm pleased to share Magna's perspective on the impact of t