Industry committee  Ideally that would be a perfect world, sir. Just to have a joint agreement, legislation that specifies for the automotive industry, would be an ideal situation.

Industry committee  That's correct. Even with the rental car industry that goes back and forth between the borders, the personal information is carried over the borders as well. I agree fully.

Industry committee  Certainly. Thank you. There are numerous initiatives around the globe. You've mentioned many of them. There's the EU. South Africa is another. Australia is another one. Obviously, there's Canada and the United States. We see this as a growing consumer issue as the vehicles becom

Industry committee  I would concur. We're primarily interested here in the diagnostic and maintenance data. We're not necessarily interested in improvements or enhancements to the code itself or to the underlying code that's associated with the vehicle. We want the repair and diagnostic data specif

Industry committee  That's a significant threat to the independent repair shops today, and on the data, there are actually two issues, as you pointed out. Number one is the ability to access the data in order to properly repair and maintain that vehicle, and then there is the second issue about pa

Industry committee  I think the view in many ways addresses some of the underlying issues that we as an industry have been advocating for on behalf of the consumer for a very long time. Is there always room for improvement? Certainly from an industry perspective everybody would like to include the

Industry committee  That is the fundamental question before us. I would highly recommend that you hang on to your 2009 vehicle, by the way.

Industry committee  However, today's vehicles are technological wonder pieces. They generate 25 gig an hour of data that is received by the OEMs telematically. It's transmitted wirelessly. I wrote an editorial several years ago in The New York Times about how your vehicle knows how much weight you'v

Industry committee  Most certainly, yes....

Industry committee  Exactly. The voluntary agreement that was reached in Canada and the United States.... We signed a memorandum of understanding with the automakers in 2013. While these agreements are good in spirit, they're not necessarily good in enactment. The first thing is the voluntary agree

Industry committee  I made a mental note not to do that. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, honourable members of the committee, for the opportunity to speak before you on Bill C-244. My name is Bill Hanvey. I am president and CEO of the Auto Care Association, which is based in Bethesda, Maryland,