I'm not sure you're going to like my answer either.
My responsibility is to help administer the Investment Canada Act, which governs the review of inbound foreign investments, such as investments that have already taken place or that are below a particular monetary threshold and have not triggered a net benefit review. These are the conditions precedent.
I can say that on any investment, if a foreign investor makes a significant acquisition of control, the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry has within his authority the ability to consider a range of economic factors that touch on our food security as well as the nature of the economic activity related to a particular investment, including the effect of an investment on competition within an industry; the compatibility of an investment or an investor with our national industrial, economic and cultural policies; and the contribution of the investment to Canada's ability to compete in world markets.
If the minister is not satisfied that this investment would meet our net benefit test, then certainly the minister has within his authority the ability to block that investment. More often than not, in the engagement with investors and different parties, the minister will accept binding undertakings that would help ensure a certain level of production in Canada or keep the management team Canadian or keep the headquarters in Canada. These are some of the typical undertakings that are accepted by the minister in certain cases.
It probably doesn't answer your larger question about what recommendations we'd put forward to support food security, but certainly the protection of a marketplace in Canada is one thing that helps ensure that we have the ability to do that.