Industry committee  Yes. By the way, we do agree that with some consumer products, that makes sense. If you can keep these things running, keep phones and stuff from going to landfill, then we're all about keeping those going. In our particular industry, we are trying to keep the machines running i

Industry committee  You're right. They are already violating it. We just feel that this is going to make it easier and proliferate the problem.

Industry committee  No, I don't think you've been duped. I do think that in some situations, we as dealers could do better in terms of dealing with machines that are down in rural areas, for example. I know that in our business, more than half of the parts that we sell go directly to the customer

Industry committee  There are two things. First of all, we do support the right to repair. We are supporting our customers with the information and parts to repair machines themselves. That's number one. Number two is where the problem that comes is in the unintended consequences of allowing our cu

Industry committee  I'm going to say no. Today we are sharing, again, as much information as possible. In fact, I need to take a little issue with the remarks at the beginning. There really aren't tractors down right now because they don't have the information. The good dealers out there are supplyi

Industry committee  I would generally agree with that. In the instances where we have shared some of this higher-level machine information so that customers can fix something themselves, they have generally gotten themselves into more trouble than they were in to begin with, which makes their machi

Industry committee  I'm not directly in the mining industry, so I'll talk just generally about this. For example, there's a project in Fort McMurray right now, where a number of autonomous truck fleets are running that require very sophisticated software and control systems to operate in a safe way.

Industry committee  It is AED's position that we do support right to repair as well. As I said before, it's just that we need to keep equipment running in order to be the solution of choice for our customers to come to us—so yes, we do.

Industry committee  Yes, I agree with that. I think the answer to your question is yes, we would support it if our issues around safety and emissions were.... The other one that we're not talking a lot about is machine performance. Software is there to control how the machine is designed to operat

Industry committee  Thank you. Good afternoon. Thank you for inviting the Associated Equipment Distributors to present on Bill C-244. It is an honour to appear before you today as AED's immediate past chair and as vice-president of operations at Vermeer Canada. AED is an international trade asso