Just yesterday, I publicly praised the minister and the Prime Minister for their work in securing the release of Pastor Lim. I'd like to ask about states that Canada knows have people in detention and that might be abusing or torturing those people. Certainly, Pastor Lim was in one of those states, North Korea.
The William Sampson case is one that I think gripped a lot of Canadians, where Canadian consular officials visited Mr. Sampson and knew he was being mistreated.
Does that circumstance give rise to a higher level of action in trying to extract a Canadian? Is there a caution on even visiting someone who might be experiencing abuse in the hands of a foreign state?