I understand. It's a very complicated position that Canada finds itself in right now.
You intimated in your testimony, Mr. Burton, that the eagerness with which the Minister of Public Safety and the government went about passing Bill C-70 seems to be dissipating. Time has gone by, and we have no appointed commissioner. You intimated that there seems to be some softening in the implementation and the approach the government is going to take, if they ever eventually get around to appointing a commissioner.
Do you think this is because of pressure from Beijing? The Taiwanese have warned us very much that this is exactly the way the PRC does its business. Do you think this registry is being compromised as part of a larger influence campaign from China?
