Thank you for your question, Mr. Lemire.
Chair, very quickly, I'll say that I think it's widely regarded that a national security review is an important tool that the government has to try to protect Canada's national security, including its economic security. We haven't quite yet come to a definition of what we mean by “economic security”, which I think is important.
As I said in my testimony, because of changes to geopolitics and because of changes to the global economy, I think there should be a much greater willingness going forward to use the full national security review provisions and to use them in a strategic context so that we're not thinking, as Mr. Tsafos says, in terms of that kind of one-by-one basis and suddenly find that a great deal has slipped away.
I would also say that the notion that we do national security review with a purely local, internal focus is simply wrong. Whatever “local, local, local” might mean to the Canadian parts manufacturing industry, I understand. It has very much less significance to the question of Canadian national security, it seems to me, and I think that needs to be taken into account.
Thank you.