I can't comment because I don't know the details, but given Lowe's lack of success after acquiring Rona, we might doubt that it has been beneficial. Of course, the question is whether the same obligations still exist since the acquisition of Rona by an investment fund. As I said, since I don't know the details, I am not in a position to say whether the undertakings given by Lowe's were honoured and whether they have been maintained by the investment fund.
That needs to be monitored. What happens if those undertakings are not honoured? As I understand it, in cases like that, a minister or a department has relatively little power to enforce that kind of undertaking. Lowe's could have said that the company was bankrupt and it could no longer honour its undertakings. In the deal made with the investment fund, does it say the undertakings are abandoned? Rona was not necessarily a business in a strategic sector, but it was nonetheless a jewel in Quebec's economy.
In the circumstances, I think something has to be done beforehand; when it's too late, it's too late. We have to do something beforehand, before things deteriorate, to make sure the undertakings are honoured.