I'm very happy that you brought up these aspects, including the gendered aspect and the prediction that there will be a serious uptick in Iranian transnational repression in 2026, given the current context.
Anecdotally, I've already talked to a number of activists who report recent cases of families over there, for example, being pressured to try to silence their activism here post the protests of early 2026 and post the war that is going on right now.
From a policy perspective, what does that mean for Canada? The family abroad dimension might be the most difficult policy challenge at this level. Generally speaking, transnational repression is very difficult. It's a very difficult problem to deal with on many fronts. In a narrow sense, there is not that much that Canada can do in the short term when a Canadian, an Iranian Canadian, a Chinese Canadian or others have family abroad being targeted to silence them.
In the bigger picture, I agree with what my colleague Luke de Pulford said in his testimony and answers about naming and shaming—making this public and not keeping it quiet unless there is a specific request by the victim themselves to keep it quiet, which I think we should respect in those instances. As a default position, however, the publicity aspect does matter.
Coordination with allies is something we are doing better now than five years ago, but it can still improve a lot. We are not the U.S., and we are not even the U.K. in terms of our size, our power and the assets we can bring to bear to resist at this level, but in working with other democracies where there are similar problems, the response can be improved. I think Canada work through the G7 was the first step in that direction.