My honourable friend may have misunderstood my point. It was not a sovereignty concern. The point is that Canadian science for evidence-based decision-making is especially required when dealing in a context as intimately connected to climate, place, local knowledge, and local science,
In this instance, this section might allow a minister, not necessarily the current minister but a future minister, to ignore Canadian science and base their decision solely on information from foreign states, allowing us to further deplete the capacity of Canadian science in the agricultural field.