Mr. Speaker, as I said earlier, Canadian officials, both on the political side and our tremendous civil servants, always raise our human rights concerns and raise specific cases with our Chinese counterparts at every opportunity. As I said earlier, I have had the chance to do so. My colleague, the parliamentary secretary responsible for consular cases, has done so. The Prime Minister does when he has the opportunity to do so. Members of the government always raise our human rights concerns, as it is a core and fundamental part of our international engagement everywhere we go. Certainly that holds true in our exchanges in our relationship with our Chinese counterparts.
In addition, Canada and Hong Kong share extensive commercial, institutional, and close people-to-people ties. The ability to gather and protest peacefully is a core human right that we believe in, and we see that it must be protected.
Our long-standing position is clear. We support the one country, two systems framework. There are rights guaranteed under Hong Kong's basic law, and Canada will continue to call on China to uphold its international human rights obligations.