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Industry committee I think in terms of comparing productivity, you have to be careful with respect to what the product mandate is at any one plant when they're looking at the productivity numbers. For example, when you're building a truck or a more complex vehicle, your productivity hours are facto
June 8th, 2006Committee meeting
Lorraine Shalhoub
Industry committee It depends on the vehicle, right, and whether it's a light vehicle or a truck or a heavyweight, or whether they're building multiple vehicles and numerous parts. That's all factored into those elements. You have to be careful when you're looking at those in terms of which vehicle
June 8th, 2006Committee meeting
Lorraine Shalhoub
Industry committee There's been an absence of late with respect to getting CAPC up and running since the change in the government. We're hopeful that we can do that sooner rather than later. There are some initiatives, and as some as you may know, we rate them red, yellow, and green, sort of simil
June 8th, 2006Committee meeting
Lorraine Shalhoub
Industry committee I think global overcapacity has remained consistent in the last little while. From DaimlerChrysler's perspective, we entered into a turnaround plan where we seriously looked at the number of manufacturing facilities we have on each continent, particularly North America. So we've
June 8th, 2006Committee meeting
Lorraine Shalhoub
Industry committee With respect, the report has now been produced. I think Mark Nantais can speak further to that.
June 8th, 2006Committee meeting
Lorraine Shalhoub
Industry committee I would echo David Paterson's comments. I think it's critically important that we have a long-term strategy going forward, that it's known these programs continue to exist, and that it's not a one-time approach. It's important. It sends a message back to our parent corporations t
June 8th, 2006Committee meeting
Lorraine Shalhoub
Industry committee From a human resource perspective, I think we need to consider the ability to attract skilled trades and skilled people to our industry. It's very important that we have highly skilled, highly knowledgeable engineers, so that we can continue to design vehicles, develop and produc
June 8th, 2006Committee meeting
Lorraine Shalhoub