Thank you.
The old way of dealing with China in a bilateral way was that dealing with human rights was contained within China. Yet we've also heard other reports. Specifically, I have an Angolan community that's growing very quickly in my riding of Davenport. They've told me stories about how the Chinese have brought slave workers into Angola to build their highways and their airports. They're not employing the local population in their reconstruction, and they're doing this in exchange for oil.
As China's economy grows, it needs more and more resources. I think it's now the third largest or the second largest investor in Africa, so it's played a major role in Africa, from Sudan and resolutions in Darfur, to much other work that's been done. It's not developing the human rights and the economic viability of those countries; it's hurting those countries because it's taking oil and resources back to China. It's saying, “We'll give you an airport and a highway, and instead of five years, we'll do it in two years”--by having workers who are not being monitored under the same standards as we are in terms of their working conditions. It's hurting the local people as well. We can no longer look specifically within China in terms of human rights; it's also the impact the Chinese policy is having now in a lot of third world countries and in Africa.