Madam Speaker, I have been thinking a lot about this line from the Prime Minister when he was in China, when he said we should take the world as it is, not how we wish it would be. I think the problem with that line and aspects of his discourse is that it ignores the capacity that we have to create the world we want, the power that our government should have to imagine a world that is not one in which, for instance, strategic industries are dominated by powers that are hostile to their interests.
The CCP has a long-term strategy to dominate strategic interests. That is a strategy that will go beyond, for instance, the term of any president or prime minister, most likely. In that context, we need to use the power we have to develop our own resources and to establish democratically controlled supply chains for critical commodities, including development here in Canada that will benefit our country.
I wonder if the member could share whether she agrees that the overly cynical or even pessimistic approach by the Prime Minister is not warranted when we have the resources and the capacity ourselves to help establish democratic domination of these critical resources.