Mr. Speaker, it is not as though we are talking about private foreign investment. This is another government. That government, by the way, is right now the fourth largest recipient of foreign aid. Two years ago it was the largest recipient of Canadian foreign aid.
Noranda, responsible for 15,000 employees, will not receive any guarantees of fair treatment with regard to the Chinese government. The Chinese government, with regard to mining, has the worst safety in the world. Noranda controls strategically vital deposits of zinc, nickel, copper and other minerals. Nickel, particularly, is involved in the hardening of the armour of the side of warships, intercontinental ballistic missiles and space technology.
Canada's trade deficit with China has been growing to the point where now it is $14 billion a year difference. In other words, we import $18.5 billion from China and China buys $4.7 billion from us. It does not sound like a fair relationship.
It is the moral aspects of these things. The idea that Chinese dissidents--