Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'll come back to this topic, Mr. Neuer.
You know, the committee before which you are testifying was sanctioned by China because it conducted a study in 2020 demonstrating that genocide was taking place in Xinjiang. At the time, I was vice-chair of the committee, and I still am. As members of Parliament, we are personally sanctioned by China.
However, diplomatic warming is under way between Canada and China. As you noted, three days before his famous speech in Davos, Mr. Carney shook hands with Xi Jinping in front of photographers. I want to come back to that because it's extremely important.
You talked about consistency. Right now, there are known, documented and proven human rights violations in China. Yet it seems that we remain silent in the face of this, while we have no problem denouncing human rights violations occurring in Russia, for example, or in Ukraine at the hands of Russia.
How have we come to this double standard today? Do you think it's acceptable that, under the pretext that relations with the Americans are difficult, we turn to regimes like these?