Thank you, Chair.
Mr. Garant, you represent the British Columbia Investment Management Corporation, or BCI, which invests on behalf of major public sector clients in British Columbia, such as teachers, university employees, municipal employees, etc. I was struck by the fact that you began your statement with an indigenous land acknowledgement. I was struck by it because of how discordant it is with the complete disregard your investments show for the dignity and rights of the indigenous peoples of East Turkestan.
Your company, according to a report from Hong Kong Watch, invested about $35 million in Hikvision, as one example. Hikvision is directly complicit in the persecution and genocide of Uyghurs. Hikvision actually has developed ethnic facial recognition technology with cameras that identify Uyghurs and marks them out for particular persecution.
Mr. Garant, do you acknowledge your investments in Hikvision? How do you feel about those decisions?