Thank you very much, Minister. and thanks for that commitment to economic reconciliation, which I think is really vital.
I want to pivot to something you also mentioned at the outset when you talked about the people-to-people ties and harnessing Canadian diversity, and connect that to your recent trip to the Philippines, where you were meeting with, I believe, Secretary Lopez.
We know that there are about a million Filipino Canadians in the diaspora just in this country alone. When you're broaching ties, better relations and economic ties with the Philippines itself, what does that mean for the Filipino entrepreneurs here and what does that mean for our trade connections with that country in terms of the international [Technical difficulty—Editor]