As a former Red Cross employee, ICRC, my job was to visit prisons, and I visited many prisons. The first law or rule that we applied is to never really look much into the actual case of the person, whether it's political or common law, because they all have rights.
Unfortunately, in my experience with most of the prisoners—and I visited hundreds of prisoners and interviewed hundreds of prisoners before becoming a prisoner myself—there's almost always a lack of full guaranteed rights in the prison. I won't even use human rights violations. There are rights that they do not receive that would not even be imagined in Canada for us. That is why I strongly believe that by having it as legislation, not only does it relieve the family and the Canadian citizen, but it also sends a clear message to the jailer, the dictator, and the torturer that it will not be unseen. Anything they do will be monitored, and the government, regardless of politics or trade or money, will come after them, come to protect that person, and that's what it's all about.