Thank you, Mr. Chair.
As we listen to this story as it unfolds before us, to some extent it's almost like Omar is paying for the sins of the father. He must have been a 13-year-old or 14-year-old boy when he was taken out of this country, because he was only a 15-year-old boy when he was in the combat.
There's something I came across this weekend that was published in The Hamilton Spectator and The Toronto Star, in which the former foreign affairs minister Bill Graham says he regrets now not having pushed harder to get young Khadr brought back home.
Has this subcommittee's invitation to you been the first and only avenue you've had to address the situation with the Canadian government?