Foreign Affairs committee  I would just say two things. One is—and I defer to my colleagues in terms of more specialized knowledge—that the developments in this conversation on U.S.-Korea so far underscore the point I made earlier about the importance of preparation. The example I would give is the langua

Foreign Affairs committee  Of course that's one of the great dilemmas we struggle with. People may be aware that four years ago or so I chaired a task force on integrating human rights in Canada's trade policy in Asia. That was published by the Asia Pacific Foundation. In it, we took the position—and I hav

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm sorry, I don't recall talking about Korea. I think Paul Evans and—

Foreign Affairs committee  I'll say that I agree with what Professor Evans said, that we're not going to change how China behaves, but we can control how we react. When China wants us to drink the Kool-Aid and pretend that these firms are completely unrelated to the government and completely independent,

Foreign Affairs committee  The short answer is yes. It's a bit more complicated, in the sense that the presence of a party's cell, the so-called party unit, within an enterprise, doesn't necessarily mean that the enterprise is directed to follow party edicts in every single thing it does. In other words, m

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much. I'd first like to thank the committee for offering me this opportunity to share a few thoughts with you on various issues of Canada's engagement in Asia. Today I will focus particularly on the absence of the rule of law in China and its declining attention