Finance committee  I'll take a bit of a stab at that. It's a good question. Taiwan is a proud jurisdiction. Taiwan will not accept, in effect, being a sub-designation of the PRC, if I understand the gist of your question. On the other hand, we cannot bring ourselves, under the one China policy, t

Finance committee  It's a good question. I would also suggest that Sarah might reply to this as well. I can't see how that could be given practical effect, given that there's a de facto government of Taiwan, which regulates affairs of its citizens and of its people and of its commerce, whereas th

Finance committee  Thank you very much. I've lived in Ottawa, but it's nice to be back in my home province as well. I retreated home after government service. I struggled, as did others, in the office in Taipei with trying to level that balance somewhat. It's typical of many of our trading relatio

Finance committee  I yield to the government representative. I'm out of government. Go ahead, Sarah.

Finance committee  I will. I confess that I was Sarah's first boss many years ago when she first joined the Department of Foreign Affairs. I worked on Taiwan for a long time, as many of the people here at the table have done. I'm in my 30th year of Canada-China relations, and I think I have a fairl

Finance committee  Thank you very much. It's a tricky question. PRC has been the dominant, most buoyant partner for the last 30 years. By my estimate, investment into Canada from China is 600 times greater than that from Taiwan. It's whole multiple orders of magnitude greater, and that's not goin

Finance committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman and honourable members. It is my great pleasure to be here representing the University of Alberta, the China Institute, where I'm the Director and Professor of Political Science. In an earlier life I served as Executive Director of the Canadi