Perhaps I can just add one additional clarification in terms of how this is done in the U.S. There are two pieces of legislation, the Alien Tort Claims Act and the Torture Victims Protection Act. Those create, essentially, the cause of action. They create the possibility of suing torturers for their crimes.
We in Canada don't necessarily need to create that kind of extensive legislation. There is actually something like that floating around in Parliament, but not specifically on the question of torture, more for environmental and labour crimes. We don't necessarily need to do that in Canada. We can use existing law. We can use law for injuries, other types of injuries in Canada, through provincial courts in tort law.
Really, what stands in the way in Canada is that most of these claims are against government officials, and it's the State Immunity Act that really creates the barrier there.
I should point out, too, that the torture convention, our international treaty on torture, states that by its very nature torture is committed by governments, so if there is a barrier to pursuing a remedy against foreign governments, then essentially there is no possibility of a remedy. It's very, very clear that if there is a right to a remedy, and that right is very clear in international law, we have to have this amendment to the State Immunity Act to make this go forward in Canada. It's in fact as simple as that, not as complicated as creating a system like they have in the U.S.