Ryan Williams at the Industry, Science and Technology Committee

On April 26th, 2023. See this statement in context.

April 26th, 2023 / 5:30 p.m.

Conservative

Ryan Williams Conservative Bay of Quinte, ON

I guess what I'm getting at is that we've had a couple of failures. When we take risks, that's going to happen. Businesses know that. We've had Medicago, Novavax and CanSino with certain procurements for vaccines.

When it comes to the Volkswagen deal, how are Canadians protected from any kind of failure? What specifically is there if, let's say, something were to happen to critical minerals or if consumer behaviour in five years is that they've decided not to buy complete EVs? What are we in for and what happens if that deal falls through?

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