Thank you.
Mr. Marston's question leads me to say something I hope we all can appreciate, but it might bear repeating. It is that the Government of China is not a monolithic organization that operates under one set of norms and one set of policy priorities. It is an extremely diverse set of policy competitors, and that's necessitated by the fact that the Chinese Communist Party is the only game in town. You have quite a lot of diversity in policy objectives, and there are many elements within the Chinese government that support broader attempts to expand what we would call human rights and good governance. They're doing that through a whole variety of mechanisms, including the NGO and civil society sphere.
Our task is to be as encouraging of that as we can, while at the same time not exposing the folks within the system to criticism that they are too beholden to foreign influence and foreign power. That's a very difficult balancing act, and that's why I believe more effort to cultivate links between Canadian and Chinese NGOs can be very helpful.
It needs to be structured and handled carefully, for the whole reason that we don't want to be seen as the orange revolution sort of problem in China, to which the government is extremely sensitive. Nonetheless, creating space for those civil society organizations through liaison with Canadian counterparts can be helpful, and it can actually assist those in China who are working for the kinds of governance and human rights principles and practices we all support.