It's important that Canada remains firmly seized of the cases, and I think that has happened in many instances. At fairly senior levels, concerns have been raised. I know Parliamentary Secretary Alghabra, for instance, has repeatedly raised the cases. That's very important. We need to see those kinds of concerns being raised at more senior levels.
Both Minister Freeland and even the Prime Minister should be looking for opportunities they may have. Prime Minister Trudeau will, amongst other things, in the context of G20 meetings have an opportunity perhaps to meet with President Erdogan. Those kinds of opportunities need to be raised.
All of the cases are at different stages in terms of process right now. Some have still not come to trial. In one case in particular, Mr. Hanci's case, he has been in solitary confinement for most of the time in pretrial detention for over 20 months now, and he's still waiting for his trial to begin.
Some have been convicted and are awaiting appeals. The government needs to continue to raise the concern, which is a wider concern that applies in all these cases, that many of these instances seem very weak cases, going forward largely on the basis of the kinds of circumstantial evidence I highlighted before. If you have ByLock on your phone, if you used this particular bank, or if your kids went to this particular school, that's enough to allege that you're a terrorist sympathizer. That's not acceptable, and Canada should be making clear that this is not the rule of law and fundamental justice for anyone, and certainly not for a Canadian citizen.
Lastly, continuing to push for regular, unhindered consular access is absolutely important. You're right that it has finally been granted, after an unacceptably long delay, but I don't think there's confidence and assurance that it will continue with the frequency and regularity needed, so that pressure will be important as well.