I'm happy to speak on that front.
The bill does not currently distinguish between foreigners, Canadian citizens—some of whom might be dual citizens—and permanent residents of Canada. Whenever Canadians find themselves detained abroad, they automatically become eligible for consular services. What can happen is that publicly disclosing that they are in this situation and publicly criticizing the government make it more difficult for us to have consular access to those individuals.
Normally, we would seek to do prison visits to check on the well-being of those Canadian citizens, but if we are out there, publicly naming and shaming—as much as I know there are other good reasons for doing that—it can make it very difficult to support Canadian citizens who find themselves in that situation. It's not just those who are named on the list but also any other Canadian citizens who happen to be detained in the same country, because we must ultimately have some degree of co-operation with local officials in order to access those Canadians.
