Mr. Speaker, this report was tabled and recommendations were made for the minister to consider. Obviously, opinions do change based on reports and recommendations. Again, I am not in the shoes of the person who made these comments. However, what I can say is that the whole point of these committees and of making these reports and recommendations is to have the minister review them to see if they would be beneficial to Canada.
I remember hearing many of the witnesses at committee. Obviously, not all of the opinions were the same, but many of them were saying that there are already the necessary tools in the Investment Canada Act given to ministers in order to make the right decisions. Many of them said that we should remain flexible because of things like the pandemic that is taking place, and that we need to take into consideration the different conditions that exist at a given time.
It is possible that, upon review, the minister or the parliamentary secretary made comments to opinions that the government has had ever since reading the report and the recommendations.