Canada-China Relations committee  I completely agree with Mr. Saint-Jacques. I think we need to work with the provinces as well, because they also have important responsibilities to prevent Chinese interference on our campuses and in Chinese-Canadian communities. I have nothing particular to add on how we do it.

Canada-China Relations committee  Mr. Chairman, can I take three and a half days to answer that question, please?

Canada-China Relations committee  That's a very complicated question. Well, the question is not complicated—the answer is complicated. China is a vast place. If you think of it historically, it has been more or less unified for a very long time, unlike Europe, but it is bigger than Europe, and it is culturally more diverse than it appears ethnically, so to understand....

Canada-China Relations committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It's an honour to appear before this committee today. In listening to some of the deliberations of this committee and the witnesses from whom you have already heard, I note three occasionally recurrent and, in my view, fallacious premises. First is the premise that China is a frozen-in-time singularity, a monolithic, ideologically driven, unchanging country.