Yes. In a way, if the idea is that we can ask for commitments to reduce the risks to national security, then the question is how we make sure the foreign investor is actually going to respect those commitments.
To me, a half-million dollar fine—one shot—doesn't do it. Compare that with Bill C-27, where, if you don't protect personal data, you could actually be fined at a minimum of $25 million. Is our personal data so much more important than national security? I would argue not. They should at least be equal, so I'm surprised that this same formula doesn't apply here.
Now, that's one thing. Here's another. Let's say that a company makes billions of dollars from these assets, these important assets or technical information. Even $25 million is nothing. Does the minister then have the ability to impose further sanctions or to say, “No. You actually have to divest now. I'm sorry. We gave you x number of warnings. You can't do it.”
I think the law should be much stronger in terms of holding foreign investors to the commitments that we require of them in the first place.