I would agree.
The national security review can be applied in any instance, even for small transactions. That's where I think some of the real dangers appear. With a mine—let's put aside all other environmental issues—you know where the product is, what it is and where it's going. It's very well understood. These small companies, often led by a brilliant individual who's come up with a great innovation, don't often know that much necessarily about business internationally, let alone about China. They are vulnerable. Or you may have someone who's just looking at dollar signs and saying, “I'm going to sell this out.”
A similar challenge is a professor coming up with a great agreement. Maybe he's been working in collaboration with a Chinese firm. Where are they going to manufacture that widget or that thing? With all due respect to my home town of Calgary, it's not going to be Calgary, Edmonton or Prince George. It's going to be Hangzhou, Ningbo or Guangzhou, where there is already an ecosystem for manufacturing.
That is a challenge, even for academic collaboration, as well as for those small companies that are looking for joint ventures.