It's different for each sector. In each different sector, we also need to have guardrails, and companies, of course, are the first in line to understand and consider the challenges they face in the particular sectors they are operating in.
You mentioned the financial services sector. Our banks, investment firms, asset managers and major Canadian insurance companies have a long-term presence in the Chinese market. They, of course, understand the challenges the market presents. However, because of the significant opportunities the market presents to their companies, they are present in the Chinese market and continue their participation and presence in that market. Some want to expand their operations and their presence as well.
In each sector, we need to consider the challenges and have guardrails, some of them by government. Some are the guardrails that businesses themselves establish to protect their operations in China. When we look at our trade relationship as a whole, year after year, even during the past eight years of diplomatic and political strain and difficulties in our bilateral relationship, our bilateral trade and investment—when we look at the FDI stock—have relatively increased. It has been slow growth in terms of the rate of growth, but it has still increased.