Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I really appreciated all the witnesses' testimony.
I'm going to start with Ms. Samdup, but hopefully I'll have time for questions for the other witnesses.
Ms. Samdup, thank you so much for the work you do. It's work I know and appreciate well, obviously.
I want you to speak a little bit about the issue of religious-based persecution in China. I'm assuming it affects the Tibetan community significantly. My sense is that there has been a bit of a change in the mechanism of that persecution. At one time it was about basically saying you couldn't practise your faith, and now it's about trying to co-opt that faith and have everything under the control of the Communist Party, even going so far as this officially atheist regime's saying that they will determine the reincarnation of the next Dalai Lama.
Can you share a bit with the committee about the kind of persecution along those lines that the Tibetan community faces in China?