First of all, may I thank you personally for the moral clarity and leadership you showed in relation to the unanimous consent motion in December? We're extremely grateful to you and to all the others who showed such leadership on that issue.
To give a very practical example, the two resolutions of both Houses in the Canadian Parliament before Christmas directly resulted in our then having, for the very first time, the opportunity for Sébastien and for us to meet with the U.K.'s foreign secretary. Sébastien and we had been asking for 18 months for the U.K.'s foreign secretary to meet with us. We asked Liz Truss and James Cleverly, but we had no response. Finally, Lord Cameron met with Sébastien within days of what Canada had done, so it was not only important in itself but it also had a domino effect in securing more support. We've now seen the Canadian Parliament, the European Parliament, the U.S. government, the U.K. government and four UN experts call for the immediate and unconditional release of Jimmy Lai. It couldn't be more important.
The reason for that is we do not have confidence, for all the reasons that Luke gave in his powerful testimony, in Jimmy Lai having a fair trial in Hong Kong. He's been prosecuted under a law that shouldn't exist, in a system that is profoundly unfair and where the national security chief has boasted of there being a 100% conviction rate. That is why it's imperative that we ensure there's a resolution of the case internationally, because we're not going to get an adequate resolution domestically within Hong Kong.