You mentioned, Mr. Brookfield, that you didn't like the use of the term “prisoners of conscience”. You prefer “human rights defenders”. Where does that definition come from? You're saying it is a Canadian tradition. I don't find it anywhere. If you look at prisoner of conscience, Amnesty International is the one that coined the term.
I think it aligns with what we've always talked about as parliamentarians when we're talking in the House, when we're in debate and when we're here at committee. When you look at the legislation that came up in the last Parliament from my colleague Mr. Lawrence, it was with the NDP that we added in this definition of prisoner of conscience. It passed third reading before it was sent off to the committee with this terminology in there.
Just because you guys prefer one term, it doesn't mean that prisoner of conscience isn't better.