Thank you very much for that excellent question.
You raised an important issue of supply chains. The reality is that there are significant risks of environmental damage that would not be tolerable within Canada in the supply chains of a lot of these supposedly clean and green new energy technologies, like batteries and vehicles, as well as, for example, in the mining process that extracts a lot of the rare earths and other things. One cost advantage that China has is that it doesn't have many of the environmental standards that Canada has.
I would say that any strictures on trade or investment by those companies need to ensure for the Canadian consumer that, if I'm a Canadian buying an electric vehicle or making use of Chinese batteries, these things have acceptable supply chains, both from an environmental perspective and from a human rights perspective.
The United Nations and multiple independent civil society organizations have reported on severe problems of forced labour in China. I think Canadians need to be assured, if they are buying a Chinese electric vehicle or another product, that it was not made with slave labour and that it did not pollute and devastate a natural environment somewhere, in a way deemed unacceptable in Canada.