I would like, hopefully, to add a friendly amendment, and I hope that my colleagues across the way may agree to that. I am proposing that, where it says it supports the full participation of Taiwan, that “full” be replaced by the word “meaningful”; and, that instead of a report, we publish a news release statement.
The reason for that is not to delay the work of our committee and not to delay the legislative agenda as well. I'm hoping that these are two amendments will be met with approval by my colleagues.
We're aware of Taiwan's interest in strengthening its participation in ICAO. We're not against that, but when we look at the UN membership and statehood requirement, Canada is unable, as far as we're concerned—or as far as I'm concerned—to support full ICAO membership for Taiwan at this time, although we remain very open to exploring other options for Taiwan's meaningful participation in ICAO.
That is something to consider.