Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank Mr. Lawrence for the bill and for his passion and compassion in doing it. I probably have more problems with the bill than others, so I am going to dig in on a couple of things.
This is a piece of legislation. It's not a report and it's not a statement or a speech. In legislation, precision is important. I want to go back into the area of how you define “prisoner of conscience”, the legal standing of that term and how it would be interpreted by someone needing to actually decide who is one and who is not.
I come at that as a former prison chaplain, where everyone was innocent. Everyone has their own definition of that, if you're in prison, and every country has its own legal standings. Canada has its understanding. That's not a legal definition in Canada, so how do you define it?