Canada-China Relations committee  Thank you for the excellent question. I think there are two pieces to this. There are the critical components of technology—semiconductors, etc., and quantum technology—but there are also the components that drive that as well, which are the critical and raw materials. There ar

Canada-China Relations committee  I think that's a crucial question. I'll try to answer as briefly as possible. At the end of the day, it depends on what sort of contingency it is. I think China has learned a lot of lessons from Russia's war in Ukraine. If we expect an armada of Chinese ships to show up and do

Canada-China Relations committee  That's a really great question. I think every country needs to look at its strengths in some of these contingencies and play them up. I think we're seeing a clear example of this with Russia's war in Ukraine. I think that one of the roles that Canada can play—should play—is in t

Canada-China Relations committee  I think the intention in the minister's remarks is right. There are a lot of challenges—economic espionage, forced technology transfer, etc.—in China. However, I really think the remedy is a consistent and sustained dialogue with the private sector. It cannot be one warning and o

Canada-China Relations committee  It should be standard and not controversial in almost every reference to the Indo-Pacific to be talking about stability and security in the Taiwan Strait. Even a year ago, and perhaps even now, it's controversial for some government officials to mention this. I think absolutely a

Canada-China Relations committee  It's a great question. I think there are two different angles that China is taking away from this. One is obviously concern, because I think they're seeing how strongly the west has banded together on this, especially on financial sanctions. They don't want to be in a scenario l

Canada-China Relations committee  Thank you. It's an excellent point. I think it needs to start with the premise that, as I mentioned in my remarks, any contingency over Taiwan.... This is not a luxury. This is not one that we insulate ourselves from. This is not Iraq in 2003. This is not a potential conflict of

Canada-China Relations committee  That's a great question. I think I would start with a point that when crafting a successful strategy, empathy is essential. Obviously we need to be focusing on the interests and the values that matter the most to Canadians. If we do that without actually asking those in the reg

Canada-China Relations committee  Thank you for the question. To add to what my colleague said, I think there are three main points. I would agree on deterrence. We absolutely need to build up deterrent capability. Many of the allies in Asia do as well. For example, Japan still hovers at around 1% of GDP spend

Canada-China Relations committee  It's an interesting discussion right now of decoupling, for example, in the Chinese case and finding areas that we should decouple or sectorally segregate. One of the arguments against that always comes to the supply chains. If we were to do something with China, we have supply c

Canada-China Relations committee  I think you're right. I think that there are two main stories that we need to keep in mind here. One is semiconductors, obviously, in any contingency. The second one is energy security. If we think that we're having problems right now in Europe—and we are having problems with our

Canada-China Relations committee  I don't believe that Japan will act in isolation, but I think that if the United States is engaged in a conflict, then Japan, likely Australia and potentially even the Phillippines, as a treaty ally, would play a role. What type of role I think would take a much longer discussion

Canada-China Relations committee  I think you've hit the nail on the head there. Look at the United States' Indo-Pacific strategy: I did a quick PDF search of “Canada” and it came up zero times. There's no mention of Canada. In discussions with Americans, they won't say that they're doing this to punish you—that

Canada-China Relations committee  Well, with regard specifically to the issue of the detention of the two Michaels, I couldn't give you a firm answer. There were a lot of different moving parts. There were different administrations in the United States that spanned over it. This was a judicial decision as well.

Canada-China Relations committee  I do think the Arctic is a key area. I also think the North Pacific is. Look at Operation Neon. We've been engaged in it for several years to ensure that North Korea isn't able to circumvent sanctions. I think this is another tangible example of the Canadian military playing a ro