Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to our witnesses for coming today to testify in person. We appreciate that greatly.
In the Indo-Pacific strategy, the government says “we will challenge China” when it comes to China's belligerence and threatening behaviour in the region. You mentioned, as was noted, that Minister Joly spoke up publicly when China increased its military aggression towards Taiwan around the visit of Speaker Pelosi.
My question is on whether there a process in place in the department to assess when the Government of Canada is going to speak up to challenge China on this kind of behaviour, or is it more of a situation-by-situation assessment?