International Trade committee  Canadian companies can invest in India, yes, and some of them, if I'm not mistaken, have.

International Trade committee  No, in Himachal. I had a partner from India. That's why it was easy for me do things, because he was already there. If I'd had to start on my own, I knew it would have been a big hurdle. I'd have to have gone through lots of hurdles. So yes, I did invest my money. I sold my anc

International Trade committee  In that state, not that much, no. But in the other one, in Punjab.... Unfortunately, I am from Punjab. For my education, I was in boarding school in Himachal. That's why I love that state, and that's why I invested my money there.

International Trade committee  I'm going to add one more thing. Just as an example, I won't name anybody, but that businessman has about 500-plus people working for him in that state. The state deputy chief minister threatened him. Now he is moving his business from this state to another state, and he was goin

International Trade committee  We have businesses in two states.

International Trade committee  They are Punjab and Himachal.

International Trade committee  No, no, in other states there is a problem too—in Haryana, for example. If you go anywhere there are problems. Only a couple of states are good, such as Gujarat. Gujarat is good; you don't have to pay too much money to move your files. It is there, but it's not as bad as in Punja

International Trade committee  No, I don't think so; not to my knowledge.

International Trade committee  To some extent, yes—

International Trade committee  —to some extent yes, but what about my investment? The government should be there to protect me—

International Trade committee  By the way, I want to add one thing.

International Trade committee  Just like Mr. Dhesi, I have done the import-export business with India from Canada. It was about eight or nine years ago, and I had some problems. It happened to be my partner, who was from India and really did an excellent job ripping me off. After one year or so, I said “thank

International Trade committee  Thank you.

International Trade committee  Yes, there can be, and there has been in the past. The problem is this. In the state government, if there is a congress, things will go well, but if in the state government it's a different government, then there's a problem. Not only that, the central government has bureaucrats

International Trade committee  It is our government's duty to protect Canadian citizens and their investments. Or even if I'm not an investor, if I'm going to visit there and there are some problems, the Canadian government, or the Canadian embassy should protect Canadian citizens from any wrongdoing whatsoeve