I think progress has been made and that is in part because of the problems Canada had with China over the detention of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor. Surveys covering the period following the two Michaels period indicate that Canadians' attitude toward China is much more negative than it was. We started no longer seeing it as a country that was not in any way an adversary, and that is progress. However, have we reached the point when a majority of Canadians accept the fact that China really is an adversary?
China is not an enemy, but the United States, the United Kingdom and France, who are our close allies, consider it to be a strategic adversary, on the same basis as Russia. There has been some improvement, but the fact remains that we are probably the only western country that does not have a foreign policy framework. That kind of framework would allow us to say clearly that the Government of Canada regards China as a risk.
Canada's Indo-Pacific strategy does include a few paragraphs that indicate a change of attitude toward China on our government's part, but Canada has not clearly stated that it considered China to be a serious adversary, as its close allies have done. At the risk of repeating myself, I will say that we have made some progress, but it is not enough.