Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I am going to direct my questions to Mr. Burton.
The PRC, for all intents and purposes, has its largest diplomatic footprint in Canada. It has nearly three times as many accredited diplomats in Canada as it does in Australia, despite Australia having much stronger trade ties with Beijing, a comparable population to Canada's and a comparably sized diaspora community. In fact, the PRC has roughly the same number of accredited diplomats in Canada as it does in the United States.
Given that, is it fair to say that the reason Beijing has such an outsized diplomatic presence in Canada is that Beijing sees Canada as a soft target for its foreign interference and transnational repression activities?