Not necessarily, but I do want Mr. Caouette to continue, because I'm going to ask him a question that's related to the previous question.
Mr. Caouette, in an article you co-authored for a special edition of the Canadian Foreign Policy Journal entitled “Canada and Southeast Asia in the new Indo-Pacific era”, you detail four challenges to Canada's desire to strengthen its relations in Southeast Asia. The fourth challenge—this brings me back to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations—is the fact that Southeast Asian countries don't want to take sides in rivalries between powerful nations. In other words, no one sees total, unconditional alignment with the United States or China as a desirable strategy. Some of these countries are closer to China, others a little less so.
You identify Canada's first challenge as a reputation problem. Might that be related to the fact that Canada, somewhat like the United States, considers the People's Republic of China to be an increasingly disruptive global power?