Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I would like to thank our witnesses today. This has been frightening, of course, but also very informative. Thank you for your testimony so far.
Mr. Manthorpe, we understand that we do need to have a trading relationship with China. I think what we saw with Xi Jinping and his consolidation of power, the purging of rivals from within the party, is that this is heading in the wrong direction, clearly. However, knowing that we do have to have that relationship, what should the diplomacy look like?
It was unfortunate, but we did not have a diplomat in China for the past nine months of the last year because Ambassador Barton left the position in what I would say are probably pretty stinky circumstances when he went to work with Rio Tinto.
What should our diplomacy look like? What should Canadian diplomacy with China look like right now?