No, I appreciate your question.
I think colleagues would appreciate that this is all about providing more tools in the tool box. I can tell you that, in my experience as Minister of Industry, I feel constraint sometimes to meet the high level of ambition of the committee and Canadians in terms of protecting national security with respect to foreign investment with the tools in the tool box. Why? I would say that the situation has evolved. We want to go at the speed of business. Intellectual property has been taking on more importance and tangible assets. The fact is that we cannot seek undertakings under national security, while the Americans do that all the time. There are pre-filing requirements like having a stand-still period, if you want, during the review. To me, they're all pretty common sense.
Maybe the committee will think that there's more that we could do, but my desire for future ministers is not to be necessarily in the position that I've been in, which is trying to do as much as I can with the very limited set of tools that I have. I think that, as the situation evolves, you will want to vest in the Minister of Industry...subject to a number of safeguards. It would be in consultation with Public Safety. As colleagues have said, there's the Governor in Council, and there are going to be a number of checks and balances. However, for future ministers, I would hope that they have more tools in their tool box.