Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to build on what some of my colleagues have raised earlier about anti-Asian racism.
My father was a Chinese immigrant who came to this country in 1952, only a few short years after the Chinese exclusion act was repealed by the Canadian Parliament. Even though the act was repealed, the sentiment behind it clearly had not been. Growing up as a half-Chinese kid in the 1970s, I know full well what discrimination and racism is all about.
I want to ensure that something else I've seen first-hand is put on the record. Many Canadians of Chinese descent who have been critical of China, such as Hong Kong pro-democracy activists and human rights groups, have been attacked and intimidated online and in person by their fellow Canadians of Chinese descent for not being sufficiently loyal to China and for not supporting the motherland.
I just wanted to make sure that this was on the record, because that community is a minority within a minority in many respects, and often they feel very isolated. I think we need to give voice to the voiceless.
Seeing that my time is limited, I have a very quick question for Mr. Houlden.
You mentioned in the industry committee that much of China's FDI, its foreign direct investment, arrives via third countries. Could you possibly elaborate on that a bit more?