Yes, but at the same time, we're parking a whole bunch of Canadians' money into these foreign companies that we choose. The minister wants carte blanche to choose which one he says no to, which I presume means the contrary to that is that he's going to choose which one he says yes to as a result of what he's proposing here in this act. Therefore, it is a thumb on the scale of which international companies will get projects subsidized by the Canadian taxpayer in Canada. Right now that happens at the battery production level, at the lithium process level and at the auto manufacturing level.
I want the government to square this for me because, frankly, we are putting a whole bunch of bets on these electric vehicles, which have a large investment from Canadian taxpayers into them and a large, upfront CO2 footprint. This is not going around.
Can you see why we're not meeting any of our targets, either for bringing in foreign investment or lowering our CO2 emissions in Canada?