Thank you, Mr. Davies.
Whether the minister speaks to these issues is not a matter of the rights to the minister; it's a matter of what the committee is studying. We need to be relevant to what we are studying. The plight of the Uighurs is not part of the minister's statement, for example. Whether the minister was present or not for the COVI committee is not relevant to our study. I give very wide latitude for questioning, but I do think we need to stick to the subject matter of our inquiry, which is the government response to COVID-19. I accept that the minister did introduce these other matters, and I think that it's fair to respond to them, but I really hope we can focus our interventions on the COVID-19 response.