Can I say something?
I want to say that because I'm one of the principal advocates of the Magnitsky act, I get approached by many people who have been victimized by different regimes in different countries. They want to use the Magnitsky act to impose sanctions on the people who have been there, the people who have perpetrated these crimes. This is not true just in Canada; it is true all over the world.
I tell them that they should apply to the foreign ministry of Canada using your Magnitsky act, submit their evidence, find members of Parliament who can support their cases and bring those cases up in Parliament, along with the application to the foreign ministry, with the hope to get those people sanctioned.
I would say that in almost all cases, they would submit their recommendations. There may even have been media attention to it. The government would then do absolutely nothing. I would say that in the vast majority of cases, the government would do absolutely nothing.
We end up in this situation. The members of Parliament who brought it up can get no answer from the government about why they did nothing, whether they should or should not have and what their reasoning was. That's one of the reasons this provision basically asking the government to be accountable to Parliament is such an important thing.
I can't imagine that anyone sitting in this room today would object to that. There's no reason anyone should object in this Parliament to having the government more accountable to parliamentarians. That—