Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm very happy to sit on this committee for the first time. Even if I have a very small Chinese community in my riding of Acadie—Bathurst, I certainly know the importance of human rights, and I will always be a strong defender of those rights.
That being said, I'll ask my questions in English and French.
You talked about the four Cs—challenge, co-operation, competence and coexistence—and I want to talk more about the commercial relationship that we have with China.
Can you just give us an update on where we are, for example, on the exportation of some of our products such as pork, beef and canola? For example, in my riding of Acadie—Bathurst and throughout Atlantic Canada and eastern Quebec, China is a very important market for the exportation of our seafood, as you know. Can you give us an update on where we stand now in terms of our commercial relationship with China?