Thank you very much.
I want to ask another question, and it offers you an opportunity to clarify.
There are those in China, particularly within the Chinese leadership, who will say that if you look at the economic aid that has been contributed to the Tibet Autonomous Region, the investment is equivalent to about $100 billion since the annexation of Tibet in 1951. Chinese subsidies have funded substantial transportation and hydro power projects that have resulted in a local economic growth rate over the past two decades that exceeds the national average. I'm reading a briefing note prepared for us by the extraordinary analysts we have from the Library of Parliament. This is not their view; this is a view that, as I said before, some in the Chinese state have put forward. What would you say to that? It is something that is brought up by the Chinese leadership.
I'll run out of time and won't get a chance to ask the third question, so I'll put it here: What would you say to concerns that have been expressed by China about secessionist tendencies within the Tibetan movement?
Do you have a response to both of those questions? Again, I am very sympathetic to Tibetan calls for greater human rights, certainly, but I think this offers an opportunity for you to clarify these two points here for the committee and for Canadians watching.