He's very high profile, very controversial. He speaks well to social policy agenda items.

Canada was quite kind to the environment last year, with the fastest-growing segments entry-level products. High gas prices took a while, but they eventually resulted in a decided shift to smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles.

Canada's getting its fair share of the upside and the downside.

Incentives devalue your product and confuse consumers and they create as many negatives as positives. Whether they stay off it this year is going to be a case of discipline.

It was an incredibly good year; surprisingly good.

This is the first time since I started monitoring sales by model in 1978 that a passenger car has come even close to being the most popular vehicle in Canada.

Add in dozens of suppliers tied to them that are failing, and it's pretty ugly.

Diesel is hot. Diesel is one of the fastest growing segments in the Canadian vehicle market.

We do not know if St. Thomas is on the list. Probably not. But who knows?

The demographic shift to older, wealthier consumers is also driving strong growth in the luxury segments, especially entry-level luxury products.