Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Ms. Prost, for your testimony before us.
I was listening to your testimony. What we're trying to accomplish is that we're trying to figure out those people who are grave human rights abusers. Obviously, there probably hasn't been an investigation. The context was around a global Magnitsky law, as passed in the United States and contemplated in other countries. That's part of the problem, right? First of all, the country isn't going to have an investigation, more or less.
I guess my question to you is, how do we work around that? You say sanctions are no substitute for an investigation if there's a cover-up or those kinds of things. Our concern is those individuals who would take advantage of their country and then put those assets in Western democracies where at some point in time they or their families could have access to them. We hear the argument that it doesn't actually happen, but it does happen, maybe not as much in Canada and maybe more so in places like the United States, the U.K., or some of the European countries.
I'd like your thoughts around that. We're struggling trying to figure out how we do this, and I'm hearing you say maybe that more amendments would need to be made, more definitions, and things like that. The end that we're trying to achieve is, where there's not that due process.... I can appreciate that if this is coming from a highly democratized country and there are already issues in place that arbitrarily throw people on a list or sanction them, having not gone through due process would not always make sense. Some of these countries don't always have that in place, so I'd like your comments around that.
You gave us some good things to think about. Is there any way around that, in your mind, that would strengthen it and make it fair and reasonable?