Sure. Essentially, the U.K. is not a particularly effective model for Canada, because it has opened its market entirely. The result has been that Chinese vehicles have made rapid gains in that market. The U.K. is in a critically different position. It doesn't try to have the same scale of domestic auto industry.
From a connected vehicle perspective, it's an illustrative model that Canada wants to be careful with. The problem is similar to the Huawei problem. A lot of these countries initially let in Huawei to build critical infrastructure and network backbones because it was cheap, only to later discover that from a security perspective, this created problems. It allowed a potentially hostile, great power to not only commit espionage but also potentially shut down major aspects of the grid or allow them to degrade. European countries, including the U.K., are now having to apply security concerns after electric vehicles have already been let in, and that's likely to, if anything, impose even greater costs and restrictions.
This notion of opening trade and then assessing the security risks is ultimately going to be penny-wise and pound foolish, and it will end up costing more, both in dollars and in security.
