Maybe you could wedge me onto some other question at some point or another. I think I got the short end of that stick.
Let me just set the table for the anticipated generosity of the chair. Secretary Tai was recently confirmed by the Senate committee. Possibly she will be the most important secretary we have, and one with whom—I know you know her—we'll have a lot of relationships.
Under the subheading “Rethinking the China strategy” in a recent article, she says some interesting things: that the U.S. needs “a strategic and coherent plan for holding China accountable”, that “China is simultaneously a rival [and] a partner”, that we “can't compete by doing the things China does, so we have to figure out how we can [do things differently]”. She goes on to give several examples, the most significant of which was, “I think the use of forced labour is probably the crudest example of the race to the bottom.”
This is the question I have for you. Is there an active conversation between the Government of Canada and the Government of the United States as to how to align our interests in that sort of discussion?