Absolutely not. It's not a Canadian issue or problem. It's a problem in the United States. It's a problem in Europe. It's a problem in Asia. It's a problem for everybody who is participating in the fallacy that things are still the same in Hong Kong as they were five years ago. That's just not the case.
We all—we in the advocacy community and also in Parliament and governments—first need to join in clarifying the perils that now exist for doing business in Hong Kong and what the potential costs might be. The risk factors are now much greater than they were a couple of years ago. Governments aren't doing a good job of this. I think it came up here last week that one of our congressmen, Congressman Gallagher, has talked about businesses wearing a “golden blindfold” doing business in Hong Kong and China.
As I said in my statement, our vision of what is happening there has been blurred by both economic means or goals and our own political hopes over the years. There is literally no protection now, or any more protection now, that exists in Hong Kong than exists in mainland China for people who are doing business. One of our means of bringing pressure to bear is to highlight that fact and to get people to realize it.