Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Mr. Potter, you stated that most of the abuses were justifiable by the Chinese authorities. One of the concerning comments was that the lawyers being important enough to be cracked down on is an improvement; it's progress. I suggest that it is rather the opposite of that. It instead highlights the ongoing inadequacy of the Canada-China bilateral human rights dialogue if these things are progressing in that way.
There was a comment made, too, by Mr. Chin that China is more apt to view discussion on this under, I suppose, the lens and light of international human rights agreements, but your comment was that this was so when they were enforceable and legitimate and effective. Maybe you could expand on that, because certainly within that, my understanding is that there are many human rights provisos and acts that are internationally understood by most of the major communities.
What is the difficulty here, particularly with their concern about enforcement and legitimacy being effective? What can be done to change the discussion on that, to maybe go to the source of the problem, which is tightening up the legitimacy of some of these international regulations?