My comment is that in this era of complex and ambiguous conflict scenarios and threats, it is absolutely essential that we use all legal means possible to prevent us from being used or abused in the international community by those who are not at all operating under the rules. In so doing, it is essential, in the case of Canadians who are being held internationally, that we do respond by the proper rules. In the case of a child soldier who is Canadian, then the rules are clear that he is a child soldier and should be repatriated to the country in order to be in a proper judicial system, because the one in the United States has not recognized the fact that he is a child soldier. Any movement we do beyond those fundamental principles that we have as laws, in order to attenuate what we think might be a threat, are manipulative and ultimately will bring us down.
We must work within those rules and apply them.