Thank you, Mr. Chair.
It's a very disturbing topic when we think of what can happen to a woman.
I was in Saudi Arabia in 1979. It had sharia law. At that time, there was a man beheaded for raping a little boy, and several times hands were removed from people accused of theft. This was all done in public. I noted that in your testimony you seemed to indicate that the caning was done privately. In fact, at the time that I was in Saudi Arabia, there was a couple of Canadians who were caned something like 90 times in a public market.
You indicated that al-Bashir said sharia law was going to apply. Is that not constitutional? Do they not have it as their base of what they do?