It was the policy of every government that I served. I started looking at China intensely in the 1980s, when Mr. Mulroney was prime minister. That got upset for a little while because of the Tiananmen crisis, but he started to re-engage before the end of his time, and then Mr. Chrétien's and so on. It has been very much a multi-party consensus about the importance of China. Whether we've done it as well as we could have, that's another issue, but it's been throughout the government.
I remember governments of both governing parties saying to their ministers that it wasn't just Foreign Affairs. It was Foreign Affairs and all of the rest of them, the whole cabinet. Every department of government had to start taking China more seriously, for our interests. It was not because we were trying to change China, but because our interests counted.