Raquel Dancho

Thanks. I'd like to move an amendment to the amended motion. It's a very brief one. On the second line, it would read, “the Minister of Industry and department officials be invited to testify for at least two hours”. The rest remains the same in the amended motion.

I'm going to follow up with you, Mr. Reuss, about a comment you made earlier on Chinese EVs when they're entering other markets. You've sort of indicated with your tone and your language that what happened to those countries was not a good situation in some ways. I'm sure you're aware that Volkswagen, a German company, has had to pause production of one of its German EV plants amid weaker demand, [more]

Thank you, Mr. Shipley. I think the issue, in particular, though, is that China is an adversarial nation. If we compare it with European auto markets, that is, with European cars in Canada, and also American ones, those countries are not our adversaries in the same way as China is, which is using its soft power by exporting Chinese EVs to foreign markets. With a little foothold, they blow open [more]

We can vote on it.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I move: That the committee undertake a consideration of the supplementary estimates, 2025-26, referred to the committee; that the Minister of Industry and departmental officials be invited to testify; and that the committee report the votes back to the House no later than March 26, 2026.

No, that very scenario was overridden by AI algorithms, just recently, just to be clear.

Thank you.

We have issues from Iran, Russia and North Korea and other actors. It's not solely from Chinese bad actors located in China that we receive those threats, but, in particular, there are threats from their auto data, as you outlined, whether it's audio, video or precise location according to GPS. A good example you mentioned is the fact that the Chinese government itself has banned Tesla from its [more]

Yes, we support that, certainly. I would like to move a subamendment or, if we want to agree to adopt this, we can and then I'll move my own amendment. It's whichever you're procedurally fine with, but I can do either.

We've seen it. Yes, that's fine, but I have an amendment.

Thank you, Mr. Shipley. Something that we've heard, though, in our AI study, is that a kill switch can be overridden by AI technologies today. The kill switch is perhaps a good opportunity, but it's not a fail-safe any longer. Unfortunately, just in the last couple of weeks, these AI advancements have shown that kill switches can be overridden by the very algorithm that powers the device. It is [more]