Thank you very much for that. That was very comprehensive. I think you're setting the story of Jimmy Lai at the core of why his case is so critical to the era of competition.
First of all, Your Excellency, Ambassador, thank you for your tenure and service to the American people in some of the more interesting places around the world. Congratulations for wonderful run. It's great to see your being so active here on this file for your friend, our friend, Jimmy Lai.
Let me ask you something, sir. You mentioned that the Hong Kong economic and trade office that we have in Toronto could be something the Government of Canada could act to close. Toronto is also the core of international mining finance. A lot of the world's financial flows for critical minerals and more traditional resources are managed out of the Toronto Stock Exchange. Canada has a literacy when it comes to resources that few other countries can parallel.
In the name of Jimmy Lai and the promise of Hong Kong and capitalism that was supposed to be at the core of the Sino-U.K. declaration for Hong Kong, what could you recommend Canada do to curb Beijing's state-owned enterprise approaches on critical minerals that dominate developing nations across the Indo-Pacific and Africa and beyond?