Public Hearing Audience publique - Commissioner / Commissaire The Honourable / L’honorable

19 The first division focusses on assessing the current state of 20 the economy, monitoring the evolution of the economy in the near 21 term, and assessing the economic outlook. [...] 19 So as a result of that, and we were doing work 20 with the Americans at the time, for instance, with respect to 21 the treatment of electric vehicles, something that was critical 22 to the future of the automotive industry in Canada, there was a 23 tendency in the United States to want to treat that as an 24 America only issue. [...] And then again, these disruptions come 25 along and raise issues in the eyes of the United States and in 26 the eyes of the U. [...] 22 ADM RHYS MENDES: The first scenario really 23 focuses on a shutdown in the automotive sector, that -- a 24 shutdown in the automotive sector that is -- the logic of that, 25 I believe, is really the just-in-time nature of inventory 26 management in the automotive sector. [...] DAHLIA SHUHAIBAR: I guess they would affect 2 the whole economy, whereas cities were more localized? 3 ADM RHYS MENDES: Yeah, so the impacts -- the 4 impacts of the border blockade, because the effected sectors 5 have linkages to the -- greater linkages to the rest of the 6 economy, did have the potential to have much broader effects.