It really will be a game-changer in shifting public conceptions around arbitrary detention, whether it's of prisoners of conscience globally or of Canadians in particular. The greater transparency that this will inject into processes is something that we can leverage to improve prison conditions for prisoners and even help secure their freedom.
I would encourage that the prisoner of conscience definition in public reporting be embedded into the sanctions triggers as well and that some of the public reporting even be expanded, as we've suggested. The bill itself adds important transparency, democratic principles that could be leveraged in individual representation and in those emblematic cases in which the freedom of one person can have a positive impact in encouraging the freedom of so many others whose cases and causes they represent—as Jimmy Lai and Vladimir Kara-Murza did.