My opinion as a Canadian Chinese--well, a Chinese Canadian--is that in the Chinese culture, probably one of the main outstanding things is that everything has to go with harmony as a whole. An individual has a vote; this is very western. For China, basically an individual has to respect holistic harmony.
I think as a Canadian government we probably do have a way to keep the relationship and then also to build a bridge with the government of China to let them hear your voice, and then also to build a relationship. I think probably one of the key issues for China to improve in human rights issues is to keep the relationship, and then to build a relationship with the government from the government level. That's really helpful, because Chinese really respect Canadians.
Also, I think that in terms of the historical background, the relationship remains open, and yet I think they will learn from the best of the Canadian system. Then they will implement that in time.