I can respond briefly. Thank you.
I know the honourable member has great experience on some of those files that he spoke about, and I also believe that that's a great example of where we were able to work with China, even when we disagreed on a whole lot of things. We'll continue to disagree on many areas, but having the lines of communication open has been a clear priority as we move forward.
I'll just give a couple of examples. In December, we held consular consultations. Those haven't happened in the past eight, I believe, years. If we want to protect our citizens and if we want to have those discussions, even on areas that we disagree on, it's important that we have the tables to get together with the Chinese to talk through these things. We do see some progress. Sometimes we will continue to agree to disagree, but having those channels of communication allows us a means to raise our concerns, understand each other's positions better and hopefully find some common ground out of it.