Thank you very much for that.
Mr. Morrison, I want to discuss something you mentioned in your opening remarks, that right now there is a trend in the United States toward hard power. I'm reminded of Professor Nye's comments in the eighties about soft power. As you know, the definition of soft power is the ability to attract and persuade.
For me, when we look at where the United States is going right now, we see China utilizing soft power, whether they are developing parallel structures right now in the world economy—the Asian Infrastructure Bank, or the one belt, one road initiative, it seems to me that if you look globally where the trend is going, the United States is reverting to hard power, but China is utilizing soft power, whether in Latin America or in Africa.
You mentioned the Mexico City proposal, talking about the U.S. global gag order. It seems to me Canada is trying to fill the gaps in many areas, but ultimately as a smaller country, we cannot always fill in gaps where they decide to recuse themselves.
Where do you see the Canadian foreign policy going now, managing two large economies and two countries with the very distinct, clearly aligned, and clearly forceful policies? One is using hard power and one is using soft power. I see this coming back to the definition of the Great Game, from which Russia has now recused itself to some extent, but China and the United States are now competitors to a large extent. Where does Canada's foreign policy fit in with that?