Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, and thank you very much to our witnesses today. There's been some very compelling testimony. It is nice to see two of our former ambassadors still very much engaged in dialogue with Canada and our allies around the world. Thank you for continuing to help us advance that.
I have a couple of questions for Mr. Beck and Dr. Boutilier.
Mr. Beck, regarding the 19th people's congress and the refocusing of the Chinese leadership on state-owned enterprises, we're facing a number of situations in Canada where increasingly, the ability of Chinese state-owned enterprises to acquire Canadian companies can cause some difficulties with regard to the direction that the U.S. is taking, possibly complicating the Canada-U.S. trade relationship with our willingness to approve these large transactions. Aecon is the one in the news now, but there were some security ones previously.
Where do you see this going? It seems that with the 19th people's congress, China's government is reinforcing its use of state-owned enterprises as a foreign policy tool.