National security shouldn’t take a back seat to trade: Sean Speer and me in the FP

Writing in the August 30th 2016 edition of the Financial Post, Sean Speer and I argue that Canada should be open for business, but being open for business doesn’t mean you are obliged to treat with the Mafia, or in the case of our natural resources, Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Such investment investment isn’t the same as from American or Norwegian or Dutch sources, even when they are state-owned. Ottawa should resist the temptation (as it is rumoured to be doing) to relax state-owned enterprise investment restrictions where China is concerned. It’s not worth the risk.