Government Operations committee  It's case-by-case, but also, as David Mulroney said earlier, we need a policy. We need to know what our policy is with respect to China. Once you know what the policy is, many of the other decisions will fall out from that, together with building a relationship with other countri

Government Operations committee  I didn't say that the policy was case-by-case. We need to know what our intentions are vis-à-vis China and what we're prepared to accept and what we're not prepared to accept.

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chairman, no, I don't. I think the reality—and on this I would agree with Mr. Mulroney—is that the absence of policy decisions at the top makes it more difficult for the government, more broadly writ, to respond to the threat from China. I think the importance of a policy, or