Thank you for your indulgence, Chair. I'll be brief.
Madam Chair, you and I are both involved in IPAC, the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, an international organization of legislators working on China that's done a lot on the forced labour issue in particular. I think it's noteworthy that one of the founders of that organization was Marco Rubio, who's now the U.S. Secretary of State and who also played a central role in the passing of the bipartisan Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act in the United States. He clearly is deeply, personally invested in these issues. It seems to me that an easy area to potentially pursue a win-win would be to engage more with the United States in finding greater levels of alignment on combatting forced labour and on working together on enforcement, as well as on alignment in terms of legislation.
Do any of our witnesses know if any conversations or proposals have been put forward or discussed in the context of the present difficulties around working more effectively with the United States on forced labour issues as a way to achieve a win-win on something that's clearly important to people within the administration and that's important to us as well?