Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to all the witnesses for being with us today. It's a fascinating discussion, and I have a lot of questions.
I'm going to focus my questions on you, Mr. Balsillie.
You've spoken a lot about exfiltration. First of all, I want to take this opportunity to say that over the course of years, I would say you've tried to exfiltrate an NHL hockey team from the U.S. to Canada, if I'm not mistaken. I know you haven't had success with that yet. I'd like you to know that I'm fully in support of that, regardless of the business case behind it. I hope you keep that up.
You've spoken quite a number of times during your discussion about the need to bring in expertise to help ensure that we have the expertise to inform government decisions in the areas we've been discussing.
There a couple of points that I want to make.
First of all, my understanding is that some of the things that we have spoken about—not necessarily you, but some of the other folks on the panel—like research security or IP protections, are covered in many cases under other regulations or other legislation. There was just a discussion about the protection of children and privacy laws. We've had a bill introduced in January on that matter.
What I'm trying to do is highlight that this bill isn't meant to solve all the problems that have been discussed today, but it's meant to solve some of them. Some of the other problems are being tackled to some degree or another in other bills.
I want to come back to your point about expertise, because you've repeated it several times. I hear you. You've talked about the different components of the value chain and how easy it is—especially in the digital space or in AI—for the value to leak, or exfiltrate, as you said.
One thing I want to ask you is this. If the minister had the expertise that you believe he needs to have at his disposal—whatever that is—do you believe this bill would allow us to achieve the goal of preventing that exfiltration that you've been talking about?