Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I have three questions. I want to go through them, so give me some time to give a preamble to them.
One thing I wanted to correct, though, is that in the case of Poland, it isn't a young democracy. Poland has been practising elections at least since the 15th century and the Jagiellon dynasty, when 10% of the population used to vote for elected kings. While we are doing this study, I think it's important to remember that for the last 25 years, many of these countries we're talking about have practised democracy. They're not new to it, and the choices they make domestically, we don't always have to be pleased with.
However, it's the Baltic states specifically that I want to talk about. I want to ask you a question about the current diplomatic representation that we have in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania. Do you see any downside to expanding our diplomatic representation with them right now as a show of support to them, so that each of them would have an ambassador from Canada? That would allow us to better integrate with them and better assist them in deflecting Russian aggression and Russian interests, as well to deal with a lot of other issues we have and could expand on, including the commercial interests Mr. Saini spoke about in central Asia, but maybe more so in the Baltic states.