Canada-China Relations committee  Their status has changed. They are now living in a place that is much more like a Chinese city. I think we need to.... I notice that we have upgraded our travel advisory and talked about the dangers of arbitrary arrest and detention. You have travel advisories, but you also hav

Canada-China Relations committee  The first thing is that a lot of countries are having the same discussion, and the smartest and best way would be to work with allies. The other thing is.... As I said, we've had a year and a half in which things have slowed down. The relationship is not where it was. I was surp

Canada-China Relations committee  What was the part?

Canada-China Relations committee  I may have missed something in the interpretation, but I think we've been reminded through this of China's great willingness to use health as a form of coercion in health measures. It should encourage us to diversify and find other partners, including in things like the developme

Canada-China Relations committee  I think you may have answered your own question, in the sense that China took this opportunity because the world is so preoccupied with the pandemic. However, there is some history here. In 2003, they tried to introduce something that was actually, if anything, maybe even a littl

Canada-China Relations committee  They felt that the Hong Kong administration was losing control to democratic forces and was being out-thought by very creative and very courageous young democracy advocates, whose success showed in local district elections just a few months later. The flames of democracy were rea

Canada-China Relations committee  Unfortunately, I think it's very late in the day for us to be asking that question. We've had two decades of China's steady strangulation of Hong Kong in which we should have responded. Now, when the python has almost consumed its prey, it's very late for us. I think cancelling e

Canada-China Relations committee  Sure. This is what happened. Last summer, I got a message from someone who was on the special China task force that had been set up to deal with the crisis. It's someone I had met with before, an old colleague. We exchanged ideas, and the message was, “Can we talk again?” I'm alw

Canada-China Relations committee  No.

Canada-China Relations committee  I mentioned a case at McMaster University in Hamilton, where a Chinese student group was galvanized to block a speech by a Uighur human rights activist. I think that group has since delisted or lost its status at McMaster. At the University of Toronto's Scarborough campus, a ve

Canada-China Relations committee  No, I'm saying that it was done by students, but there were kind of references to the consulate, and this is something that consulates do. They run student groups. They have education people who look at Chinese students. I'd be looking at that as a possibility. I have no proof th

Canada-China Relations committee  I should say that one of my favourite success stories in China was the success story of Clearwater Fine Foods of Nova Scotia, which moved from selling lobster as a commodity to selling lobster as a delicacy, with a Canadian flag on the claw. I'm very proud of the fact that the m

Canada-China Relations committee  First of all, while this involves speaking out on human rights issues, my first priority, as you will have noticed from my remarks, is Canadian national security. China has picked up...and practised diplomacy by detention with Canadians. It has unjustly detained our citizens. It'

Canada-China Relations committee  No, I wouldn't suggest that at all. I would say, though, that we need to look at—

Canada-China Relations committee  If I could just respond to Mr. Harris, I think he may not have heard me correctly. What I said was that I thought that our multi-year, multi-million dollar campaign for a non-permanent seat on the Security Council wasn't the best use of or the best priority for Canadian diplomacy