Public Safety committee  Chair, I can start. Thank you. As was explored and discussed at this summit, there are numerous devices available from very well-known websites that can help replicate key fobs. There's even something as simple as a slim jim to help you break into a vehicle. There are many devic

Public Safety committee  Thank you. I can't give you an actual figure as to what company investments look like. It's on an individual company basis in terms of what they spend and that would not be made public or available to me. What I can tell you is that I just listed off a handful of measures that m

Public Safety committee  That's frankly preposterous. Manufacturers have a relationship with their customer through the dealership. They build that relationship over years. The last thing they want to have happen is to have a customer have their vehicle stolen and then they question the vehicle and the t

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Chair and committee members. Thank you for the opportunity to be here this evening and to participate in your study on car theft in Canada. Auto manufacturers are deeply concerned about the rise of car theft in Canada. The industry is actively working with stakeholde

International Trade committee  Auto manufacturing directly is about 138,000 Canadians, and then if you add in all the suppliers, dealerships and so on, that's another 500,000 Canadians.

International Trade committee  Yes. That's give or take.

International Trade committee  We don't have a strong opinion on it either way. Our view is that a negotiated solution is always the best outcome, and when it applies to the ports and the labour disruptions that we've seen there, we'd like to see more effort early on to encourage parties to come to a negotiate

International Trade committee  We were not aware of any production shutdowns in Ontario due to the port of Vancouver specifically, but yes, when there are disruptions like at the Ambassador Bridge, which went on for much longer, there are immediate shutdowns and job impacts.

International Trade committee  Unfortunately, I do. The example I gave is one company that reduced its volumes by 22% through the port of Vancouver. I feel as though we just came through that and now, if you look at the Port of Montreal, we're approaching yet another disruption at the end of this month. If t

International Trade committee  I admit that I'm not deeply familiar with the program, but I will say that as the industry transitions to electrification, one key benefit of EVs is reducing your life-cycle emissions, which includes everything from the manufacturing of a vehicle to its time on the road. Reducin

International Trade committee  In terms of the even longer-term impact, I would just say that the industry right now in North America is going through this technological transformation. The United States is very much trying to create a North American electric vehicle supply chain, to reduce dependence on China

International Trade committee  It's had a real impact on our reputation, because it wasn't just the strike. We have had numerous strikes at ports and rail over the past three years. It feels as though not six months passes where CVMA is not somehow engaged in some forthcoming labour disruption in Canada. This

International Trade committee  Thank you. Prior to this strike, the automotive industry, globally, was still recovering from a semiconductor shortage. We have seen that shortage impact trade volumes of vehicles in North America and around the world. There were pandemic-related shortages of semiconductors, whi

International Trade committee  Absolutely. For our third recommendation, we are hopeful that the recently established supply chain office will be able to do some of this through Transport Canada. We'd like to see the federal government enhance its leadership and coordination role with respect to critical trad

International Trade committee  Yes. At least from an auto perspective, between the Port of Montreal and the port of Vancouver, we see that real reputational damage has been done. Companies are, as much as possible, trying to reduce their dependence on those ports to make sure that, should there be stoppages,