Mr. Chair, I hope members will understand that I am not in a position to speak on advice to ministers that is under development. I can assure the members of this committee that Canada's one China policy and the way in which Canada has used that policy to navigate both official relations with China in pursuing our interests with the PRC but also unofficial relations with Taiwan, have been marked by a very flexible approach. The policy is in effect, by design, strategically ambiguous. It is not particularly prescriptive.
We spoke about that a bit earlier in this conversation with respect to levels of access and such. By design, our one China policy and how we manage our interaction with Taiwan have successfully, for 50 years, allowed us to do more and more things that are in Canada's interest: growing trade and engaging further on education ties and on research and development, precisely because we have taken a very ambiguous and flexible approach.