Dr. Charles Burton (Senior Fellow, Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad, Macdonald-Laurier Institute, As an Individual) at the Industry, Science and Technology Committee

Thank you, Chair.

Good morning, everybody.

I'd like to speak on the aspect of your study of the Investment Canada Act that is to determine whether Canada should place a temporary moratorium on acquisitions from state-owned enterprises of authoritarian countries, and I am happy to speak this morning—