Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you very much for appearing tonight. You paint a rather bleak picture of the situation in Tibet, not only for the people of Tibet but also for our government's ability to monitor, participate and get a sense of what's happening on the ground there.
In August, this committee heard from Dr. Lobsang Sangay, who is the president of the...I'll refer to them as Tibetans abroad or the Tibetan diaspora outside of the territory. He talked about the middle-way approach as a way to perhaps reconcile his people's way of life within mainland China. It was to seek a “genuine autonomy" for the Tibetan people "within the framework of the Chinese constitution”.
Could you talk a little about the Government of Canada's position on this middle-way approach and any work that's been done to facilitate it or to move it forward?