Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to each of our witnesses for being here today and for your enlightening remarks on the bill we are reviewing.
I will ask you the question I wanted to ask Mr. Lawrence. We know full well that a certain number of countries around the world react fairly well and quickly to international pressure. However, we also know that a certain number of countries react fairly badly to international public pressure, and they will tend to close in on themselves like oysters rather than submit to the international pressure directed at them.
What do you think of the provision, which is a bit like a blanket provision, whereby the government would publish the names of prisoners of conscience, when we know full well that this might have an extremely positive outcome in some countries, but an extremely bad one in others?