Industry committee  I guess it would be hard to have a voluntary agreement that would say you can't opt out. The very nature of the voluntary agreement would make it so that if Tesla, with its very different business model, chose not to participate, then.... What we see in the future is that most of

Industry committee  I think, as we pointed out earlier, that we're a little behind. If you think about it from the perspective of the Americans, they already have right to repair legislation, which was extended to the connected car through the state of Massachusetts. They currently also have, at the

Industry committee  Absolutely. Look at the state of Massachusetts, where there was a ballot measure adopted as part of the last federal election in the U.S. It got broad support from the population—again, 75%. All the counties throughout Massachusetts voted to extend the right to repair legislation

Industry committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I will deliver my remarks in English; however, I am happy to respond in French as well. Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Jean-Francois Champagne, I'm the president of the Automotive Industries Association of Canada or, as we're also very w

Industry committee  I guess the short answer is—

Industry committee  I guess, in short, there are clusters, obviously, around the original manufacturer. When we see original manufacturers building factories, that creates an ecosystem, and the aftermarket, as an extension, also benefits from that. So the first answer is, yes, we do that. From an i

Industry committee  I'm not sure I can express an opinion. We have to look at that from the perspective of our manufacturers based in Canada who export. Of our a membership base of about 150 people, about 20 of them are core manufacturers in Canada and we will need to see how that impacts them and

Industry committee  It's early, it's evolving, it's clearly something we would need to research more, but it's clearly going to influence the supply chain. I'd like to tie it back to product standards and ensuring that as the method by which we produce parts changes or evolves, all the way down to

Industry committee  For sure, if an organization like ours were finding it challenging to be able to properly engage a wide variety of trade schools and polytechnics that offer various types of programs that feed into the automotive sector overall and into the aftermarket in particular, then with re

Industry committee  I'll make this quick. We try to silo the aftermarket from original manufacturer supply, when in fact many of those manufacturers that do supply the aftermarket are also directly supplying the original automaker. To answer your question, some of them, the larger manufacturers su

Industry committee  On the labour market information front, we're definitely working with various stakeholders. A good example is the creation of some good partnerships with the Automotive Business School of Canada in Barrie. It's a great collaborative effort between the institution and industries i

Industry committee  It is important to our sector. R and D is important, obviously. The pace at which cars evolve today is accelerating, so the rate of development in the capacity to build good aftermarket parts is also increasing. In short, yes, it is.

Industry committee  Sure. Thank you. Essentially, when we did our research around TPP, the 20 or more of our members who manufacture in Canada today highlighted the fact that most or some of their manufacturing is already done through partnership in Asia, non-inclusive of the countries involved wit

Industry committee  In fact, there are no product standards for aftermarket parts in Canada. If we build a car in Canada, Transport Canada has a set of requirements as to how this car would be produced, but once they're actually sold and on the road, there aren't specific product standards that woul

Industry committee  That's right.