Yes, that's a very good point as well.
So far, Canada has started with a small volume, but it sends a big geopolitical signal that a G7 country is reopening its electric vehicle market to China, and this ultimately tests Canada's alignment with the United States and Mexico ahead of the CUSMA review. It has strategic implications.
For individual Canadians, it's obviously also significant from a privacy and security perspective. Electric vehicles are essentially two-tonne cellphones travelling around the country. The Israeli government, for example, has banned them from anywhere near its military sites, and that country has very sophisticated levels of cybersecurity concerns.
It is absolutely necessary, if Canada is going to allow these vehicles into the country in any quantity, to consult the appropriate security agencies—the CSE and CSIS—to establish what parameters are necessary to make it secure. This may include requiring them to have only indigenous Canadian software and other limitations. This needs to be screened very carefully.
So far, the United States, for example, has ruled that effective next year, such vehicles will not be allowed into the United States if they run Chinese software. This becomes a broader consideration in the same way that with Huawei, Canada had concerns for the United States security community as well.