Mr. Speaker, I continue to believe that the world faces a situation akin to a kind of second cold war, an intensifying conflict between the democratic world and the authoritarian revisionist world. In that context, our engagement with democracies in the global south and with other states that are sort of the swing states in this new cold war, which have legitimate strategic concerns with the actions of the CCP, is very important for our security and for the advancement of our values.
In the House of Commons on January 28th, 2026. See this statement in context.