Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Through you to the witnesses, I was just on board HMCS Vancouver, recently returned from Operation Talisman Sabre. Six days ago, we saw a PLAN aircraft carrier, their new one, transit the Taiwan Strait, exercising the right of innocent passage. Our RCN ship did that as well.
What's your assessment of PLAN's diplomatic protest against us for conducting those operations while they do it concurrently?