Canada-China Relations committee  Again, my sense is that Justice has quite a strict process—that they deal with all of these. I don't know how they looked at it. I don't think that it was more broadly discussed.

Canada-China Relations committee  I didn't take good enough notes on your first question. I'm sorry about this. I'm happy to go over if you want.

Canada-China Relations committee  Quickly, I think it's a good thing to do, but it's not sufficient. It's sort of like necessary but not sufficient. I don't think it's going to unlock it, but it's a good thing to do. On the silk road or the belt and road initiative, as I think we say from a government point of

Canada-China Relations committee  Again, I am the ambassador for Canada, so I'm going to be pursuing what the government is saying. My understanding of what the government is saying is that we want to be very careful about certain aspects of the belt and road initiative, again, on its transparency and debt and wh

Canada-China Relations committee  Sure, because I do think there are, as I said, from the history and the culture, different perspectives and views on the world. I think that what we first tried to do was move away from what I'd call the “speech-reading” on both sides, which literally was, first, “You are lapdogs

Canada-China Relations committee  I am hopeful.

Canada-China Relations committee  I'm hopeful because, just by definition I'm an optimistic person, so you have to take that, but I actually believe there are small steps. We did not have any formal communications. A lot of it was informal. We now have very good formal relations. We have real discussions where w

Canada-China Relations committee  I have.

Canada-China Relations committee  I'm not sure what the privacy rules are, but I have had outreach from some of the senior vice-presidents to talk about information that relates to the consular cases.

Canada-China Relations committee  That's right.

Canada-China Relations committee  Yes, I did.

Canada-China Relations committee  One was Canadian and one was Chinese.

Canada-China Relations committee  Again, I'm a rookie at what's private or not in this sort of thing, but they were conversations about the relationship between Canada and China, what was happening with the Meng situation and so forth. They were giving their views about the situation and what was happening. I'm o

Canada-China Relations committee  Absolutely. I always do that when I have the chance, and I did.

Canada-China Relations committee  Again, it's unclear to me what influence the company has in China, and it's not for me to figure out the detail of that. What I expressed to them was that while they might be very upset and concerned because Madam Meng had been arrested, we are very upset and concerned because Mi