Yes. I would not be the only one to assess that electric vehicles pose a risk. If we don't allow Huawei to build our 5G or 6G telecommunications backbone, why would we allow BYD to sell cars in the Canadian market? They can gather up enormous amounts of information on both the drivers and everyone around them. There's ample documentation of this.
The key question is whether Canada has the technical capabilities to mitigate those risks through, for example, cybersecurity safeguards, binding local production requirements or snap-back mechanisms that would allow Canada to change or close a quota if it turns out that things are not going the way we want. That is one crucial thing that the government's automotive initiatives and strategies seem to be incorporating and need to incorporate: Treat this as an experiment with the capability of pulling it back and stopping it if it turns out it's going in a dangerous direction.
There are unquestionably cybersecurity risks. The issue is whether they can be mitigated. As well, from an economics and trade standpoint and an investment standpoint, is it worth going to the trouble of having to do all those mitigations? Does the benefit actually outweigh the cost to the taxpayer of all those additional cybersecurity provisions? One of my core arguments about trade with China is not that individual companies can't make some money by trading or that individual investments might not be worthwhile; it's that the cost of security and mitigation measures that Canada as a whole will have to take on in order to make those investments safe, from both a cybersecurity perspective and a political influence perspective, may end up outweighing the value of the investments in that trade.