Thank you, Mr. McKay.
This is really an important issue. Vladimir Kara-Murza, as I mentioned, is facing 24 years in prison for standing up to the Putin regime. As many of you will know, he was poisoned twice, in 2015 and 2017, by the Russian government and nearly died in both cases. He is now in prison. The effects of the poison have plagued him throughout his time, and he's lost the feeling in his feet from the nerve damage that the poison has done.
The situation is so extreme that they suspended the politically motivated show trial they put him on, which is very unusual. It shows how concerned the Russians are to not have him basically perish in the middle of the trial. This has reached a level of what I would say is an extremely urgent situation.
I understand that there is a motion in Parliament to make him an honorary Canadian citizen so that the Canadian government can advocate more effectively on his behalf. I hope that you and others will support that because he's a friend of Canada. He's a friend of this Parliament. He's a person who's very effective in doing all of the things that we're talking about today and making it all happen. He deserves our support.