Canada-China Relations committee  Thank you, sir. Thank you to the members of the committee. [Proceedings continue in camera]

Canada-China Relations committee  Not at all. New Brunswick is a small province. I hope that our actions will inspire other provinces and that the Government of Canada will take action. I don't think there will be major consequences here.

Canada-China Relations committee  There was a level of control that was supposed to be in place, but the standards weren't lived up to, which is how we ended up having elementary school students being told that Taiwan was just another part of China. I think there was a bit of overconfidence in terms of expecting

Canada-China Relations committee  Those were only in the context of the classes that the Confucius Institute teachers were offering. This is a good moment to note something that I didn't say earlier, which is that when the consul general came to visit me, he was accompanied by a translator, and after saying the

Canada-China Relations committee  I can't speak about what happens in cabinet.

Canada-China Relations committee  It took a couple of months after my government was elected. We were elected in September 2018, took power in November 2018 and began to prepare this effort later in November of 2018.

Canada-China Relations committee  Absolutely. We've been working with the representatives from the Republic of China, Taiwan, who have an astonishingly high-quality educational exchange program that I'd encourage everyone to look into.

Canada-China Relations committee  No, I think we should encourage Chinese language training. We just shouldn't use the Communist Party of China to be the language teachers.

Canada-China Relations committee  Look at the 1930s.

Canada-China Relations committee  We have an aggressive regime that has no respect for any of the values we hold dear, that suppresses democracy and that is currently incarcerating several million Muslims in concentration camps, forcibly sterilizing them, and women are being forced to take People's Liberation Arm

Canada-China Relations committee  —that may be difficult, but I am not in favour of working with countries as—

Canada-China Relations committee  No, I'm not. I'm very happy where I am.

Canada-China Relations committee  I'm not sure what relevance it has to the hearing, but I'm more than happy to.

Canada-China Relations committee  The National Democratic Institute was founded in the early 1980s in Washington, D.C., as part of four different non-governmental agencies, one linked to the U.S. Democratic Party, one to the U.S. Republican Party, one to the U.S. body representing organized labour and one to a bo

Canada-China Relations committee  No, I don't speak Spanish. I worked in Asia and Africa.