Thank you, Sikyong Lob.
I want to build upon that and ask you about the state of basic religious, linguistic and cultural freedoms within the PRC.
We've heard about the Uighurs. As a Muslim Canadian, I am appalled by what we are hearing about the Uighurs, but I'm also troubled by their status being a bit more well known right now than some of the other violations of basic cultural, religious and linguistic freedoms, such as those that relate to your community: Buddhist temples, which are ostensibly open in China, not being allowed to display a picture of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, a man who is an honorary citizen of our country; the fact that Larung Gar and Yarchen Gar in the Kham province in eastern Tibet, where thousands of monks and nuns receive their training, were literally decimated by the PRC; and the fact that in January 2016, Tashi Wangchuk, a language advocate who promotes the use and the instruction of the Tibetan language, was arrested and subsequently convicted, against the pleas of many international countries, Canada included.
Can you please tell us a little bit about the current state of affairs regarding the linguistic, cultural and religious freedom of Tibetans living in the People's Republic of China and what that should indicate to us in terms of policy to be developed here in Canada, along with those international allies you mentioned we need to be developing?