International Trade committee  Thanks very much for the question, Mr. Carrie. What I'd like to start with in answering that question is going back to your comment about playing catch-up with the United States. We're running behind the United States. I think a core area of focus is that, as a nation, we need

International Trade committee  Thank you, Madam Chair and members of the committee, for the opportunity to speak to you today on behalf of the 15 members of the Global Automakers of Canada. Our manufacturing members Honda and Toyota represent 55% of Canadian light duty vehicle production through September 202

Industry committee  I think you're absolutely right, especially with electrification. There's high voltage on the vehicle. The first responders need to be trained in how to deal with that technology on the vehicle when they arrive. There are protocols that have been put in place by a number of diffe

Industry committee  What's working good is that we have a mechanism in place to ensure that the information is shared with the aftermarket. Each one of the CEOs from the member companies at the time signed off that they would provide that information and make that information available. I think the

Industry committee  No, I don't think I said that. I think we can always make improvements. I think that's what we've been asking the aftermarket folks who are part of the task force with us for the last five or six meetings that we've had: Tell us specifically what is wrong, what challenges you're

Industry committee  Maybe I could start. If you look at the representation in the marketplace currently in terms of installed market parts, you see that dealers have 28% of that market. The aftermarket has 59% of that market. In terms of DIY parts, the dealers have 4.5% of that market. The aftermar

Industry committee  If you can find a way that's going to address the cybersecurity concerns.... Let me put it another way. If the automotive aftermarket is prepared to accept all of the liability associated with those rights that you are suggesting, then that's an entirely different equation. Ri

Industry committee  I can't speak with regard to Asia or the European Union. I can speak with regard to the United States, though, and my understanding is that yes, that's the case.

Industry committee  I can't confirm that every one of my members complies in the same way. In terms of consequences, I think what we have established is that the agreement has been working well for the last dozen years. The incidents of people saying they can't get service and repair information hav

Industry committee  When we set CASIS up a dozen years ago, I think that was an issue that we recognized we were going to have to deal with down the road, as is security information, for instance. I think you know, Mr. Masse, that security information was not part of the CASIS agreement, because we

Industry committee  I would say that the risks with this particular bill before us now, for the automotive industry in any event, outweigh the gains if the bill moves forward, for the reasons I enunciated in my testimony.

Industry committee  I can speak for myself. I think the fact that we have a voluntary agreement in place, and have for the last dozen years, speaks for itself that we do support a right to repair.

Industry committee  I think the reality is that what's before the committee currently opens up a host of problems and challenges with respect to, as both Mr. Drury and I have enunciated, potential risk to safety, potential risk to environmental compliance and various other issues that are problemati

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the committee, for the opportunity to speak to you today on behalf of the 15 member companies of the Global Automakers of Canada. Our manufacturing members, Honda and Toyota, represent 55% of the Canadian light-duty vehicle production through

Transport committee  I think part of it is that pre-clearance activities are always good. Ensuring that we know what is coming to the border before it actually gets there helps it move through the border more quickly. That's one activity that deserves maybe more focus than it has had to date. As well