Thank you, MP Sarai.
Of course, the question of the Indo-Pacific strategy is extremely important. Why? It's the biggest investment in decades for Global Affairs Canada. It is a reckoning that we are a Pacific country and that since what is going to happen in the Indo-Pacific will have an impact on Canadians for decades, we need to be there, and we need to make sure that we're strategic about it.
We invested $2.3 billion, which is 43 initiatives affecting 17 departments, and our goal is to make sure that we are able to invest in security. That's our first priority. The second one is trade. The third one is really everything linked to people-to-people ties: immigration, humanitarian aid. The fourth one is linked to climate change and investments in infrastructure. Finally, the one that is dear to my heart is the diplomatic footprint, being able to have a lot of expertise regarding the region but also making sure that we increase our presence in the Indo-Pacific.
We are also putting a lot of emphasis on Japan and Korea, because they are part of our neighbourhood, which is the northern Pacific. We are also investing in Asian countries. We want to make sure that we become a strategic-level partner of Asia. At the same time, we are making sure that we have a good working relationship with India. I've visited India two times in the past four months, as it's chairing the G20.
Of course, everything we do is also linked to the protection and promotion of our national interests and to making sure that we defend human rights because that's part of who we are. That's part of our DNA, and that's part of our ongoing commitment at Foreign Affairs.