Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Mr. Hillyer's question is a very good one. Let me just give a brief answer. The United States should not have lifted the comprehensive sanctions on Iran because of the nuclear talks. That said, the United States and Canada should have targeted sanctions on human rights abusers.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  It's a proposed law. It was introduced before and not passed. A narrow bill that had to do with the specific case of targeted sanctions on Russia was passed in 2012, and it had good effect. Now the leading Democratic senator on the Senate foreign relations committee, Senator Cardin, is introducing legislation for a global version of these targeted sanctions.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Indeed, I'm happy to mail it to you.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Maybe I can take a crack at that first. It's a pleasure to see you, Professor Cotler, and thanks for your question. I think it's deeply important for both the lives and the welfare of those individual political prisoners and for giving texture to people among democracies in the international community about the impact of the Iranian regime's repression.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Mr. Chairman, honourable Vice-Chair, committee members, thank you very much for the opportunity to speak with you today about human rights in Iran. Let me start by first commending the Government of Canada, which year after year has been a leader in the UN General Assembly in denouncing the systematic abuses that the Iranian regime commits against its own citizens.