Mr. Chair, what China did in response to Taiwan is yet another example of economic coercion that Canada has felt in a long history of coercion against other countries to advance political objectives—including Norway, Lithuania, Australia, South Korea, just to name a few.
It is hard for exporters to have a revenue stream that is reliant on one dominant buyer, as it is for many, as a previous member had indicated with regard to fisheries, and then suddenly find after so many years of predictability that it's suddenly interrupted. It causes tremendous hardship, and there are two challenges. How do you keep your current operations going, and where do you find the funds to try to seek out new markets? It is that very unpredictability that is at the heart of one of the strategic objectives in the strategy to encourage Canadian businesses to diversify. The Government of Canada is trying to set that table with other markets to do so.