Government Operations committee  All right. Thank you very much. I'll just end with two other points. This middle-power alignment needs to work quickly to engage in WTO reform to ensure that economic coercion and other forms of coercion cannot be deployed against Canada and other middle powers. Lastly, I'm ad

Government Operations committee  We should understand that in the initial days of the outbreak of the coronavirus in China, the decision-making process was frozen due to systemic challenges within the Chinese government associated with the deepening authoritarian rule under Xi Jinping. This should be differentia

Government Operations committee  Good morning from Tokyo. It's about three in the morning here, so I apologize if I yawn. First of all, let me just thank you for the invitation to come and share my views on this important committee. It's important for us to be thinking about COVID-19, what its repercussions for

Government Operations committee  Thank you very much for telling me. First, I'd like to begin with what I think are the four eye-openers for Canadians in terms of the COVID-19 pandemic; second, I'd like to talk about lessons for Canada; and third, recommendations for Canada. Let me begin with the four importa