Industry committee  Thank you for the important question. On the question of an east-west grid, I'll echo the points of my colleague Pierre to some degree. It becomes a question about energy sovereignty and sovereignty of the two nations in the Canadian Confederation. It's very important that we're

Industry committee  I know some of these aggregate figures for the whole economy; maybe we'll come back to them in a second. In the automotive industry you get aggregate figures that come from measurements from the national accounts of nations, and so on, and it's a little bit abstract. One of the

Industry committee  Again on that point, the Canadian workforce has proved itself not only for the big three traditional manufacturers, but with Toyota's selecting Ontario as the site for its new plant. That would speak to the fact that of course we can build a good car—in fact, among the best in th

Industry committee  Let's take the example of the order books in the parts industry. Yesterday, we had a meeting with the people from the Automotive Parts Manufacturers' Association. They emphasized that new research had been conducted specifically on the type of books of members in this sector and

Industry committee  I'm just going to add to that, and I'll address the question on the dollar that you raised as well. Again, the list is quite long. Obviously, in addition to the Beacon and Oakville projects, we have Toyota's announcement, and International Truck, and we saw a major parts manufa

Industry committee  Thank you, Peter. Thank you to the members of the committee. I apologize to committee members for not having French copies of our presentations. We only have copies in English. We didn't have a lot of time before preparing for this meeting. I'll nevertheless be able to answer y