Thank you, Mr. Chair.
It's true that we work hard
A previous minister of industry—I won't say who—now has a job with one of the largest telco providers in Canada. They announced some money for what was a Mexican company on the surface, but there was a holding company in the U.S. that owned it. The innovation was done, and then the company moved that innovation to another country, to Mexico. It was Nemak. Then, we had to fight to get the workers' pensions.
I won't get into all the details, but I'm concerned about what types of thresholds there are and how vulnerable Parliament is depending upon who sits in the minister of industry's seat in terms of evaluating when we have government supports for research and development, SR & ED tax credits and so forth, for Canadian companies. How do we evaluate that in terms of saying yes or no when they're bought by foreign entities? How does this bill relate to that? It's a little bit tricky again, but—