ASEAN                         Association of Southeast Asian Nations

AUKUS                         Trilateral security pact between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America

BSE                              Bovine spongiform encephalopathy

CCP                              Chinese Communist Party

COP-15                        2022 United Nations Biodiversity Conference

CORE                           Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise

CPTPP                          Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership

FOIP                             Free and Open Indo-Pacific

G7                                Group of Seven

G20                              Group of 20

IPS                               Indo-Pacific Strategy

IUU                              Illegal, unregulated and unreported

LNG                             Liquified natural gas

NGOs                           Non-governmental organizations

PRC                              People’s Republic of China

QUAD                          Quadrilateral Security Dialogue

RCEP                            Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership

S&P 500                       Standard and Poor’s index of the top 500 United States’ companies

Special Committee      House of Commons Special Committee on the Canada–People’s Republic of China Relationship

U.S.                              United States

ZPMC                           Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries Company Limited

WTO                            World Trade Organization