I'm open to those discussions, as I talked about a bit.
I'm sure, Heather, that you'd agree with me. My overarching concern would be the victims and the victims' families. If the bill were to be amended in such a way that victims' families would have the right to not have it published, I'm okay. That makes sense.
What I am concerned about—and this could be with a Liberal, NDP or Conservative government—is that there are always lots of priorities a government has when negotiating with other nations and countries. I just don't want it to be easy for them to not publish this because it's convenient for a trade negotiation or convenient or expedient in another way.
While I'm very happy to have discussions about small changes to the bill, I'm just very protective of the families and the individuals, the prisoners of conscience who were held abroad. I think you'd be naive to say that this hasn't happened on probably a regular basis for probably hundreds of years, if not more, where individual rights are traded off for national priorities. I think it's a great opportunity for Canada to take a stand that individual rights are important and human rights are important. We shouldn't just trade them away quickly to get a trade deal done or for some other national priority.