Foreign Affairs committee  Sure. Good morning. I'm Sarah Taylor, Director General for North Asia and Oceania.

Foreign Affairs committee  Mr. Chair, I would agree with the statement that this is a region that has huge opportunities for Canada and for many of our major trade partners that are growing in importance for us. We actually already have one deal almost in hand. It's before the House now to ratify, which

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm Sarah Taylor, director general for north Asia and Oceania. To my knowledge, Air Canada did not seek our advice before making that decision.

Foreign Affairs committee  As the minister mentioned, we have indeed put in place a number of measures to address the Rohingya crisis. That's an ongoing and evolving file which we're continuing to follow and address. We're continuing to advocate for perpetrators of gross human rights violations and abuses

Foreign Affairs committee  Sorry, I couldn't hear the full question.

Foreign Affairs committee  As I said, there are a number of other organizations involved in this, and so we are in ongoing discussions with international organizations and other countries about accountability and how best to address accountability. I would mention also that Canada actually does already hav

National Defence committee  Yes.

National Defence committee  If I can add to that very briefly, while we're obviously happy that we're not seen by the North Koreans as an enemy or a threat, I think that stems in part from their very laser-like focus on the U.S. and their relationship with the U.S. In fact, one of the messages we have been

National Defence committee  No, absolutely not.

National Defence committee  I would just add that there is one venue that brings together North Korea and a lot of other regional players, which is the ASEAN Regional Forum. That was the setting in which Minister Freeland was able to engage recently with the North Korean foreign minister. But that is not ex

National Defence committee  As Mr. Gwozdecky indicated earlier, of course our hope is that, strategically speaking, the effect will be to push the North Korean government to revisit its approach. We know it's a difficult task, but it is still one way to clearly explain the world's disapproval of its approa

National Defence committee  Just very briefly on the China front, as far as we can tell, roughly 90% of North Korean trade runs through China. We were very pleased to see that the Chinese government supported the latest UN Security Council resolution, which is significantly upping the sanctions that are imp

National Defence committee  Indeed the national security adviser was in Pyongyang briefly in August. The primary focus of the mission, from our perspective, was to secure the release of Pastor Lim, which they were successful in doing, so we were very pleased with that outcome. He did have discussions with

National Defence committee  No, there were no undertakings made by the North Koreans. Again, the primary focus of the discussion was around Pastor Lim's case. At any opportunity we have, if we have interaction with the North Koreans, we raise our concerns both on the proliferation-disarmament side and on th

National Defence committee  I believe it's confidential, but I can check and see.