Well, if most of these relationships are fundamentally exfiltration.... We spent decades creating foundational AI technology and gave it to Google. Taxpayer money created foundational battery technology at Dalhousie and gave it to Tesla. What we get are some research papers. Taxpayers funded this.
Would you like the legislative authority to unwind that? What exactly is the FDI that we're “losing”? Yes, we're gaining 10 cents to lose $10, and we want the option to unwind that. I kind of like that deal, and I don't like that FDI, and I think that if people took the proper time to bring in experts in the analysis, they'd figure out that we're shooting ourselves in the foot, and that this is not the kind of FDI that we want.
Seeking this FDI is why we're last place in the OECD for the last 40-odd years and are forecasted to stay there for the next 40 years. People cannot afford to pay their bills because of poor public policy.
I don't think we want this kind of FDI under these terms. Other nations put structures around these relationships to ensure that they look after many economic and non-economic realms to advance their citizens. Our extreme neo-liberalism has hurt us.