Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I have just a very quick question.
Minister Freeland and Minister Champagne have talked recently about reducing trade with the People's Republic of China and other authoritarian countries. Ms. Freeland was in Washington on October 11 at the Brookings Institution to about friend-shoring, and Minister Champagne was in Washington on October 21 talking about decoupling.
How is reducing trade and commercial relations, in other words friend-shoring or decoupling, consistent with the Indo-Pacific strategy, which says, “Canada will continue to protect Canadian market access in China”?
That's my question.