Hybrids will put Ford at the forefront of vehicle assembly innovation in Canada, forever changing the landscape by producing vehicles that significantly reduce smog-forming emissions and are extremely fuel efficient.

The Garage Canada Fund enables us to tap a very strong wellspring of innovation and talent in Canada, and span the North American continent.

The Open Source theorem says that if you give away source code, innovation will occur. Certainly, Unix was done this way. . . . However, the corollary states that the innovation will occur elsewhere. No matter how many people you hire. So the only way to get close to the state of the art is to give the people who are going to be doing the innovative things the means to do it. That's why we had built-in source code with Unix. Open source is tapping the energy that's out there.

It's shocking that this has come about just as Air Canada is showing such massive profits,

I am well aware of how precious the Flathead is here in Canada and I am well aware of how precious it is to people in Montana. I am not about to let anything outrageous or irresponsible happen in the Flathead.

It's something that won't go away. We're very resentful . . . because not one suspect had been in Canada. All had been in the U.S., training in the U.S., with valid U.S. visas.