I think, Mr. Chair and colleagues, the goal here is to move forward together to be able to take a look at these documents and ensure that we do right by the Canadian public and the auto sector. As we stated earlier, there's definitely concern around unredacted documents and ensuring that we maintain the confidentiality of commercial dealings—as one would expect and as we, as a government, believe that we should be doing—to ensure that commercially sensitive and confidential documents are maintained.
Public disclosure of these documents not only is illegal, but it also diminishes our reputation as a country, as a jurisdiction for foreign investment. At a time when the U.S. market has essentially closed off and there are, certainly across government, many efforts to open new global markets and unlock new opportunities for our businesses and our workers, I think it would be counterproductive and would do more harm than good for these documents to be made publicly available. That's the chief primary concern here on this side. I think publicly disclosing these contracts implicates thousands of workers whose jobs are tied to these contracts, which—
