Canada-China Relations committee  Viewed from the region, what happened with India has been a really big setback for Canada. You can't underestimate the influence of India across multilateral fora. Regardless of the incident and however nice the strategy is, what happened with India has been a real setback. Ther

Canada-China Relations committee  First of all, obviously I must try to speak French a little more often. Second, we have to work on the issue of corruption. Otherwise, we will have a hard time making progress on anything. If we work on that, it will change how Canada is perceived in the region. A lot of countri

Canada-China Relations committee  Professor Horton, you didn't have a chance in the last one. Do you want to go ahead?

Canada-China Relations committee  I highly recommend going over the Cullen commission testimony. The Port of Vancouver is known to be heavily compromised. It is considered a security risk even to the Americans by virtue of what goes through there, and it benefits malign actors for it to be a non-functioning port

Canada-China Relations committee  Thank you. Not only is this a legal issue, it's also a law enforcement issue. That's the big question. You can have whatever law you want, but if you can't enforce it, it's irrelevant. As mentioned, China is going after lawfare and trying to undermine international rules and re

Canada-China Relations committee  Because debate is healthy, I'm going to add a different perspective to ASEAN. It's more of a security perspective, not an economic perspective. ASEAN is only as good as its weakest partner from a security perspective, and you have some pretty heavily compromised members of ASEAN

Canada-China Relations committee  I went first last time, so Dr. Horton can go.

Canada-China Relations committee  It would have been great if we had joined Quad and AUKUS. That would have made us a very different profile in the region. I'd also like to bring up something that hasn't been brought up, which does seriously affect our security profile in the region. It's Canada's relationship w

Canada-China Relations committee  I'm happy to take it, but Professor Horton, do you want to?

Canada-China Relations committee  Quickly, yes, it would definitely be very helpful. For example, in the Pacific Islands context, the U.S. does most of this engagement through the East-West Center, which is funded by state departments and based in Hawaii and D.C. Canada is not considered part of the Indo-Pacific,

Canada-China Relations committee  Thank you. I'll do my best to answer you in French. Actually, it's been so long since I've had the opportunity to speak French that I lack the vocabulary. I'm a little embarrassed about that, but I'll give it my best shot, and I do apologize in advance. I'm actually in Miami ri

Canada-China Relations committee  This is very consistent with the comprehensive national power approach, where you try to get into everywhere you can on the systems. The thing that we've been tracking more are the ship-to-shore cranes. China has a company, ZPMC, that has about 80% of the ship-to-shore crane mark

Canada-China Relations committee  Thank you very much. Just to clarify, having had enough of British weather, I am now in Miami.

Canada-China Relations committee  Chair, vice-chairs and members of the committee, thank you for inviting me to testify today and for your service to democracy. This is an excellent committee. It's very inspiring. I'm going to begin by explaining very broadly how I think the Chinese Communist Party looks at the