Thank you very much.
To all the presenters, we really appreciate the harrowing and insightful perspectives you have provided, both for Jimmy Lai, for Hong Kong, for the wider Indo-Pacific region and for our shared values of human rights.
Let me begin my directing my first question to Ben at Hong Kong Watch, with compliments to your colleague, Katherine Leung, who had mentioned to this committee specific people who could be sanctioned in Canada not only for their ties to the CCP and Beijing, but also for their family assets here.
Ben, let me ask you this. There have been incrementalist approaches to authoritarian encroachments on everything from Afghanistan to Ukraine to Hong Kong. I am grateful for the recommendations you and your team have made over the many years as we've watched this authoritarian march across the world. May I ask you this: if you were to be even bolder for the democratic world to rally around Jimmy Lai and the restoration of the Basic Law for Hong Kongers, including over 300,000 to 400,000 Canadian Hong Kongers today, what would be the next step after what's being proposed today?