Thank you for the opportunity. It's good to see everybody.
I would characterize it as an isolation process. It was partly due to the COVID pandemic, but, on the other hand, I used to serve on the Chinese ethnic media quite frequently and actively.
During my term, especially after I tabled the private member's bill on the foreign influence registry, I was given the cold shoulder in many of the Chinese media, and they didn't invite me to their talk shows, even though they opened their lines for criticism of my bill. All that culminated during the election with this disinformation that I'd never been to Xinjiang, so how could I be voting with the rest of the parliamentarians that there is a genocide fulfilling the definition as stated by the U.N.? Also, why would I hate my own race, the Chinese, since I put into place this foreign influence registry?
It had a big impact, because I had left my profession in middle management of personnel in software development, and it's been difficult to get back into my profession. However, I'm glad that I was able to table this issue on the national discussion scene, as has previously been mentioned.
To many of us, this may sound like Everything Everywhere All at Once, but, to many of us in the community, it's everything everywhere all the time.