Then we'd be very cautious about doing something that could undermine our work for Canadian citizens. A point was being made that we would want to be delicate in our strategic interventions around human rights defenders or prisoners of conscience who may not be Canadian citizens if those interventions jeopardized a Canadian citizen in an either similar or different....
We have people who do bad things. They may not be prisoners of conscience. They may be crooks who are in jail, but we still help them.