I am concerned about this. It's similar to our appointment of Dominic Barton as the ambassador to China. What if the prime ministership is a transitional job for Mr. Carney, and he returns to business afterwards? The Chinese will naturally take into account what sorts of policies he engaged in with regard to China while he was in that position.
I'm not suggesting that Mr. Carney is consciously preparing for this, but the effect is the same. One is concerned about matters like this and his previous connections with the Chinese regime. His current policies, which emphasize promoting Canadian prosperity through seeking to expand Canadian exports into the Chinese market, mean we aren't implementing the registry, we aren't dealing with Chinese espionage in Canada and we're not taking effective measures against agents of the Chinese regime who are involved in intimidation and harassment activities in our country and so on. The Chinese note that.
If you look at the impact of our not implementing the registry from the Chinese government's point of view, I think they welcome it and see it as similar to the Uyghur resolution, which the Prime Minister and the entire cabinet didn't vote in favour of. They think we don't really mean it; we're not actually going to do it, and they'll continue to engage in their influence activities in Canada unhindered.
The other country we have to look at is the United States, which has increasing doubts about the integrity of Canada as a country that has not been infiltrated by China or other states. We could run into problems with whether we're going to continue in our role with the Five Eyes and the extent to which the United States feels it can share information with us without it being leaked to the PRC. There are a lot of implications in what you're saying. It's a very complicated question.