When it comes to the practices of any policies in Tibet by the Chinese government, this critical question remains: Are they transparent? What about the actual implementation of the policies that exist only in theory? This is where the idea of fact-finding, independent of them, unrestricted by them, is very important to Tibet and other autonomous parts of China.
In this regard, I would suggest the idea of reciprocity, which is that, in 2018, we had the Chinese government-appointed officials visiting and testifying before the foreign affairs committee and sharing their thoughts, but we do not have the same opportunity for Canadian government officials and Canadian parliamentarians within Tibet to see the actual situation. To answer this question, I would suggest that reciprocal access to Tibet is very important.