Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Unlike my colleague, to my mind, to understand the future, you have to look to the past. In 2005, this committee examined Bill C-25 which dealt with Radarsat-2. The Bloc Québécois was very visionary at the time, in that it was the only party—indeed it had the support of the NDP—to argue that Bill C-25 did not provide any guarantees that the Radarsat system would not be bought up by another company. At the time, the Liberals and the Conservatives were opposed to beefing up the act to protect Radarsat.
That being said, I would like to come back to something Mr. Last said, namely that not everything is for sale and that national security must remain a consideration. Mr. Last, Mr. Chairman, I would also say that values are very important in this instance, since MDA handles the archival side of things. We are talking about data that is important to Canada. If MDA is sold, who knows what will become of this archived data.
Am I correct in my assessment of the situation?