Thank you, Mr. Chair.
It's nice being PV—it's Parti vert, Green Party, amendment 6.
I want to put on the record that I'm presenting this amendment at the finance committee without prejudice to rights that I would have had at report stage, as a member who is not a member of this committee and who does not have an equal opportunity before it.
This amendment is critical. We go back to the 2008 report of the Competition Policy Review Panel, in which they found:
The panel believes that it is in Canada's interests in a post-9/11 world to have in place an explicit national security test to support its trade and investment policies.
The 2009 amendments to the Investment Canada Act failed to put in place a clear test and definition. When I had the opportunity to ask questions of witnesses from Industry Canada, on May 21 at the industry committee, they agreed that it was to our detriment that there was no study within Canada that would show an explicit test. They told me that the U.S. test exists.
I went to the U.S. test, found under the U.S. Foreign Investment and National Security Act, and adapted it to Canada. You find it before you in Green Party amendment 6. We need to be able to test an SOE's interest in Canada against an explicit national security test.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.