Yes, I think Professor Wark also mentioned this, but it's not just the mere fact that the assets—or the mine itself—were in Argentina. No, there is no way, I think, that Canada could or should compel a company to bring all of that production back to Canada—of course not.
However, this is part of a broader pattern. We've seen other Canadian lithium companies be acquired, perhaps not with national security reviews. We see the dominance of China in this space. We see the efforts of Canada and our partners and allies to strengthen critical mineral supplies so that we aren't reliant only on China and we're not subject to economic coercion or other leverage applied by that country, which they have been known to do in the past, particularly against Japan back in 2010.
I think, as part of a bigger story, what I'm saying is that there are intellectual property issues, there is management knowledge and there is this company as part of a supply chain, potentially, that we now don't have any longer to help build our own supply chain here in Canada.
Maybe in the short term we can't bring that lithium back to Canada. I don't know that for a fact, but companies like that are building blocks for building a supply chain, so I think that allowing those companies to pass a national security review seems odd to me. If you look at the bigger strategic picture and what we want to do over the longer term, it seems to me that there were reasons why we could have reviewed that acquisition within more of a broader strategic context of building supply chains here in Canada.