I listened to Brian for hours, and I believe I was the only one who was listening to him.
What are we going to tell Canadians? If there is reasonable doubt that we are exposing ourselves by making this disclosure as an unintended consequence, are we going to tell Canadians that we're sorry? What are we going to tell those 2,500 employees? What are we going to tell Stellantis and our other partners internationally? We are sorry; we thought there was a ticking bomb. There is no ticking bomb. There are no international laws any more, because we decided to respond to an article from CBC or social media posts, or something like that. Is that what Canada has come to?
As I said, if you are sitting at the negotiation table and are watching this, you're going to say, “Holy crap, is this what contracts and disclosures are going to look like?”
All I ask is a simple question. I would really love to know how many contracts our government is negotiating and how many of those are on pause because they're actually looking at the outcome of this committee. If you think this is irrelevant, I beg to differ. This is extremely relevant. Why? It's because we are risking many things. We are risking the Canada that has set itself to be a leader. We are risking the fact that we are saying that Canada is a safe place to invest. We are risking jobs. Therefore, it is extremely relevant.
We're at the point when we have come to suggest, as an amendment, “Let's look at the contract, unredacted.” We will ask, as input, from Stellantis or whoever designed the contract, which parts are extremely confidential. We will have a real look at it unredacted. We'll look at the contract and we'll get an idea of what needs to be redacted.