Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'm going back to the minister's comment a little earlier about protecting acquisitions by foreign entities of Canadian or Quebec companies. The Investment Canada Act also allows the minister to request a national security review of foreign investments in Canada.
So let's go back to the example of CRRC Corporation Limited. Could the current act or the proposed act be used as a tool by the government to prohibit foreign enterprises from taking part in public tender calls in Canada? I'm talking about enterprises that represent a national security risk, if only because of their presence here, for example their access to strategic information about the structure of the Toronto subway. These risks can be considered even greater owing to the fact that the CRRC is already banned by the United States.