Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, gentlemen, for your presentations.
You know, this committee was formed with the priority to try to protect IP, the sovereignty issue of Canada's presence with respect to technology, as well as national security. We all have the shared concern to ensure that our Canadian innovators are protected and that we retain some of that IP and monetization and scaling of that technology here in Canada. We all have a sense of wariness about some foreign entities being involved. Notwithstanding some of the academic excellence and independence that's required in the scientific community for international engagement, we want to make certain that Canada is protected throughout. Certainly, we see Russia and China and some of their institutions excelling in certain applications. We want to take advantage of that as well, but we want to protect Canada. We want to protect our businesses and our economy throughout.
I appreciate, Mr. Hinton, your mention of some of the concerns about compromise and certainly some of the developments that have occurred long before five years prior. This has been going on for some time. My question is this: Do you believe the Trudeau government was correct in its move to ban Huawei in Canada?