Thank you very much.
I will just take 10 seconds to thank the member who commended some of our members who have provided consular services. Some of them have worked through the night for days and days to provide services, so I just want to mention Nour and the team and the great work they did.
To your point, first of all I'd like to acknowledge your work. You have been a great advocate for your constituents by always raising human rights. As I said, you put it nicely that human rights is a core principle of Canada's foreign policy. We defend our interests and we defend our values and our principles, and one of our core principles is the protection and defence of human rights around the world.
We are proud to do that, and the voice of Canada is respected around the world because we stand up even when it's not easy, or perhaps as others might think, inconvenient. Canada has been there to stand up for minorities in China. We've been standing up to the situation you referred to in Delhi recently, where we were very saddened and concerned about the violence we saw. We have expressed that. I was one of the few foreign ministers of the G20 who called the foreign minister of India to express our concern and ask for a path toward a peaceful and productive dialogue.
We were also trying to engage with our Indian counterparts about the importance of upholding the rights of all religious minorities in India. We do that in a respectful way, but we do it on the basis of our principles, and we will continue there and elsewhere to always stand up for those who perhaps don't have a voice or who don't have a voice as loud as Canada's.