I thank the member for her question.
For what it's worth, I'm doing Duolingo. I've been doing it for 81 days straight. The next time I appear in front of this committee,
I would like to be able to speak French one day. I'm working very hard to achieve that.
I think the answer is realpolitik. The answer, unfortunately, is that strong states are going to do what strong states are going to do. When they're able to push their way around, that is exactly what you can expect here. The question for me is, what can Canada do to counterbalance that? I think the answer inevitably will involve friends and allies. India is a much larger country. It's a much more populous country. This is what we're seeing now.
Expect more of these transactional types of diplomacy and bullying. China was doing it. India's doing it. I would expect that to continue. The operative question in my mind is this: What do we do to increase Canada's ability to deal with that?