Thank you very much for the question.
All too often what we see with political prisoners is that they have to fight a battle on two fronts. They have to fight a battle with the country that's detaining them, but they also have to wade through treacle to get their own government to speak out for them. Regrettably, we and Sébastien and Jimmy Lai have had a long wait to get the U.K. government to speak out for Jimmy Lai, for their own national. We're very grateful for what Lord Cameron has now done and for the sea change that we're now seeing. As I said, Canada played a key part in that before Christmas. That's very welcome, but it's essential that they now use the leverage that they have.
One very serious concern we have is that at the moment, the U.K. government continues to speak out of two sides of its mouth. When it comes to human rights and foreign policy, they'll raise concern about Jimmy Lai, but when it comes to trade and the economy, they won't. We've seen repeatedly issues about Jimmy Lai and about human rights and civil liberties in Hong Kong being raised by foreign ministers, but then immediately afterwards there is a visit from a trade envoy and from a trade minister attempting to say that it's business as usual. That's a real concern to us.
I should say that it's also a concern in Canada. Whilst we've seen the powerful words that were used by Canada in the Media Freedom Coalition statement over Christmas—they didn't call for Jimmy Lai's release and go that far, but they did criticize what was happening in his case—you see simultaneously the message still going to businesses in Canada that it's business as usual and this is a safe place to do business. That's why Luke's call for there to be a business advisory is very important.
The U.S. government gives a warning to U.S. companies: If you are doing business in Hong Kong, here are serious risks to you, to your employees and to your employees' loved ones. Why does Canada not do the same? Why does the U.K. not do the same? We're also speaking to the EU about why the EU has not yet issued a business advisory like that. They're all continuing as if we're still in 2015. We're in 2024. The landscape is wholly different. Businesses need to be warned about that.