Industry committee  Yes, I will.

Industry committee  The Investment Canada Act refers to “acting under the influence, directly or indirectly, of such a government or agency”. I feel that covers what I'm talking about. You yourself referred to a firm as partly state-owned. None of those firms that are associated with China are out

Industry committee  I'd be concerned about that. I think I'd be concerned about anything that touches on the Chinese regime. In general, we just need to be more aware of national security implications for all sorts of things. Children are not aware of and don't have any concern for national security

Industry committee  I absolutely agree with Mr. Balsillie on this point. I think that is part of the Chinese strategy, to evade our regulations, to come in through different kinds of maybe sneaky means to get in there. I think there are lots of examples of this kind of thing, particularly in third

Industry committee  Well, I think what Mr. Balsillie said is certainly a huge risk, but that's not my area of expertise. I am concerned about our lack of response to these serious allegations of China's malfeasance and the enormous diplomatic cohort that China has here in Canada compared to in othe

Industry committee  Well, the Chinese regime threatens the family members in China of all people in Canada who engage in activities that the Chinese government doesn't like. The idea that they would be harassing Mr. Chong's relations in Hong Kong is not at all surprising to me. In fact, I've been aw

Industry committee  I'll answer very briefly, because of the shortness of time. Canada is much less willing to be transparent about matters relating to national security threats than, let's say, the U.S. and the U.K. are. It seems to be a cultural thing that intelligence agencies seem to curate th

Industry committee  I think, certainly, while perhaps your colleagues laughed at that headline, Aecon construction did not laugh at it. They withdrew their bid on the Gordie Howe International Bridge prior to continuing the negotiations with regard to their acquisition by a Chinese-state associated

Industry committee  Yes, I do. I think Quebec is becoming much more aware of this situation. The articles in Le Journal de Montréal have really been increasing the awareness of the Quebec public of the nature of the Chinese regime. I salute that, because I think it's important that people in Quebe

Industry committee  Yes, I believe I was quoted in the Quebec press with the word “troublant”. It's troubling to me that this is going on. I agree that it's part of the Chinese regime's overall scheme to use these investments to serve Chinese interests and to cause us to have too much dependency on

Industry committee  I'd just like more information on it. I'd like it to be from sources that don't have a vested interest or a perception that they may be beholden to Chinese interests or the interests of a certain political party.

Industry committee  This has been an ongoing issue as well. I published a piece in The Globe and Mail on Tuesday with regard to the China Investment Corporation's lack of support for Teck with regard to the hostile takeover by Glencore. We have been seeing this kind of thing for quite a long time.

Industry committee  I did hear Minister Champagne say that there would not be a threshold for national security for economic damage to Canada. That apparently does still—

Industry committee  Yes, I quite agree. I am distressed by these examples that you gave, and we came pretty damn close to giving Aecon, the construction company, to China. There have been so many examples of this. It is puzzling that we don't seem to understand the seriousness of China's security

Industry committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. My area of expertise is China's domestic politics and foreign policy. With that in mind, I'd like to pick up on two points raised by Minister Champagne when he appeared before this committee last week. The minister said that, henceforth, state-own