I'm a great believer in the phrase “sunlight is the best disinfectant”. I think highlighting this is a tactic in itself and is very important. I'm very grateful to the subcommittee for doing that today. You, yourselves, can use your parliamentary power to highlight this in a press release or in other ways: S.O. 31s, resolutions, motions and so on.
I think the Media Freedom Coalition is a good opportunity. That is a place where you should see these tactics being highlighted. One of the difficulties, however, is that things move very slowly in the Media Freedom Coalition, in part because there's such a wide range of states. You see that in some ways with the statement that came out over Christmas. It's good to have 24 states signing, but you end up with the lowest common denominator. More controversial or robust language is removed in order to ensure you get a large number of people signing on.
There are other ways to do that and I'd be very happy to talk in more detail about how to do it. These are now routine trends. We have to get organized and deal with them.
One very practical thing Canada can do is.... We're repeatedly seeing, in these cases—this happened in Jimmy Lai's case at an earlier stage—trial monitoring focused only on, for example, the defamation case or the national security law case. We have to go to states and say, “Why are you not going to the protest cases? Why are you not going to the bogus fraud case?” It took work for us to do that. Routinely, people are still just going to the emblematic case using traditional legal tools and not to the others. That has to change.