The government has made its views on the shrinking democratic space in Hong Kong very well known, that was one country, two systems, according to the Sino-British agreement of 1984, and it was then rolled into the actual handover from the U.K. to China in 1997.
Where China has violated its undertakings and those violations have increased and become more concerning, certainly since the crackdown on protests in 2019, the passing of legislation in both 2020 and 2024, and most recently, the conviction of a large number of pro-democracy and human rights activists, at each and every turn, Canada has called out violations of the fundamental agreement, and we have been active as well via our consul general in Hong Kong with the Chinese authorities.