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The commercial relationship between China and Canada, which includes of course trade, foreign direct investment, the movement of science and technology as well as the exchange of ideas, has been well set out by earlier speakers at this conference. What I would like to do, therefore, is to change the focus somewhat and to broaden it. I would propose looking behind what we have heard at the sessions to date and as well as looking ahead. What can Canada and China do both together and with our other trading partners across the Pacific and elsewhere around the world?