Well, there are two parts to the question. One is that I can't speak on behalf of the Harper government. You'd have to ask them why they did it and put the resources of Canada at such risk.
The issue is very disconcerting for our union, and that's all I can speak for, because we represent workers in resource extraction. I am not being facetious here. If a company that gets the right to extract a resource shuts it down because they can make some money somewhere else and they think they have the right to leave it shut down, and the province that gave them those rights to extract can't exercise rights when it's broken its rules....
I was just before a panel the other day, around Stelco, which is now U. S. Steel Canada. They make commitments to the Canadian government that they're going to do certain things, deliberately break them, don't do them, and we go, “Oh, well...”.
What about the rights of the citizens who are paying the taxes? I'm not opposed to foreign ownership and I'm not opposed to fair trade, but if there are rules and a corporation breaks those rules, how do they get to trump citizens?