Thank you very much for your question, and for your support, Ms. Vandenbeld.
I found in my notes the list of countries that have passed similar legislation. I mentioned Israel, Spain and Taiwan, but also Italy and Norway are on the list. There are some other examples to look at in terms of similar legislation being enacted. I think you outlined the international trends very well in your comments.
What we see with China is sophisticated, well-organized abuse of human rights. I think it's sort of a stereotype in our language that is false, where we tend to associate technological development—so-called "civilization"—with moral improvement. Those things do not go together in any sort of automatic sense at all. When we look at China we see a systematization of gross violation of human rights. I know the parliamentary secretary, who's here, and I had the honour of working with him on the Canada-Tibet parliamentary friendship group. He's very aware of that in that context, I know, as well as in other contexts in China. You mentioned the situation with Uighurs, the collection of DNA samples, so there's a lot....
Of course, these things aren't publicly advertised in terms of exactly what they're doing. It takes the detailed work of people like David Matas and David Kilgour to unearth it. The link to the terrorist financing.... All of these things are emerging and growing problems and they are part of what I referred to earlier, in response to Mr. Wrzesnewskyj's question. They are the changing impacts of injustice in an interconnected world. We need to do all we can to make sure that we are not being in any way complicit in this.
I think your comments about terrorist financing underline another issue here, which is the security dimension of this. I'm not the sort of person who thinks that everything has to be denominated in terms of security. Human rights is enough of a reason for me. I think when you have this very strong potential revenue stream for extremists and dangerous organizations, that has an impact on our own security as well.