I don't think it's a good idea to politicize these decisions. That's what we see in developing countries, like Argentina. I'm not going to use real basket case examples, but we see it in countries that have struggled in the last few years to be competitive and to attract foreign investment.
I study the data every year from UNCTAD, the world investment report, and I'm always struck by the fact that the country that attracts the most FDI in the world is the country that least needs it, and that's the United States. Why does the U.S. attract so much foreign capital? It's seen as more friendly to investment in that country. There are fewer barriers to entry.
What this is doing is simply...and I agree with what was just said about “what's another few days, or 75 days, on top of a very elongated process?”, but that's not going to create the impression amongst foreign investors that this is a good place to do business. They now say, gee whiz, now I have to go through yet more hurdles, more hoops, and at the end of the day the politicians can step in—and they're unpredictable people, whatever the political party—and throw the whole thing out the window. They say, I can go just across the border and I can do it lickety-split where those barriers do not exist.
Capital is vastly more mobile today than it was even 25 years ago, so I don't think that's a good idea.