Thank you, Mr. Chair. I appreciate your not taking the advantage and persecuting the opposition here.
Joking aside, I'm very happy to not be in that report. Canada has a fulsome and comprehensive democracy, which we enjoy.
Let me get back to the question I have. The reason I ask that question—to either of the two witnesses—is that in 2019 and 2020 one thing we have seen is a blossoming democracy in Asia that has been taken in the reverse direction. Many of the people elected—politicians, legislators—have been arbitrarily disqualified. As a result, they were disqualified for life.
Of course, I'm talking about Hong Kong here. I wonder why the committee did not pick that subject up and conduct some study on it.