Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you very much for coming. I'm not going to ask a lot of questions, because I think we already dealt with quite a number of them.
I was really quite surprised, obviously, by Mr. John Weston's experience in Taiwan.
It's very interesting that you lived there, and you had the experience where you got to see it move from a dictatorship into a functioning democracy.
I was also really surprised by Prof. Gordon Houlden's remarks around how it's become our twelfth-largest trading partner, and the fifth-largest in Asia for Canada.
I just feel that at the end of the day, a strong Taiwan, a prosperous Taiwan, probably leads in the long term to a strong China. They don't have to be mutually exclusive things, but they can interact. It makes China, I believe, a stronger place in order to do business. I'm not an expert on either China or Taiwan, but if I were looking for a place where I could do business, for a smaller location that would give some greater understanding of how Chinese people think, their values, and how to do business, that might be a good location to start, and then perhaps to the mainland later on.
To Mr. Houlden and Ms. Rebolledo, by increasing trade and opportunity with Taiwan, what would be the impacts in the long term for Canada regarding trade and exports?