Mr. Speaker, these are children and international law is clear.
As recently as April of this year, a UN report cited the use of harsh interrogation methods and forced confessions of guilt on children by the very people we were handing them over to. The transfer of children to the NDS was Canadian policy until recently, and yet the Conservative government has been telling Canadians, as we just heard, that the detainee problem was fixed in 2007.
Why was this allowed to happen? How can the government justify handing over children to the NDS?