Mr. Chair, if I understood the question correctly, I would say that we are setting up a kind of structured dialogue. However, what the Chinese wanted to do after what happened with Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor was to go back to the way things were in 2018, which was out of the question. They did the same thing with the Americans and other allies. They always wanted to have structured dialogues.
Structured dialogues were common more than 10 years ago. We don't want to do that. We want to focus more piecemeal on the things that are really core to Canada's interests, and that was very much the spirit of my visit there. We're not interested in something called a “structured dialogue” just because that's a deliverable from a visit. We're going to measure our progress in terms of things we actually get done rather than declarations we can sign.
I must say that China views these things a little differently. They would like to have us sign up to a set of principles. We would like to focus on an agenda to go forward. I'm quite confident that we can meet somewhere in the middle that melds those two approaches—that's what diplomacy calls for—but I don't think you'll see a return to the way that the relationship was run more than a decade ago.