You raise an interesting question on the number of kidnappings. The majority of those, as I think you inferred, would arise out of domestic relations. But in some cases they're rather benign—if you can use that word on a kidnapping—where the parent takes the child from Alberta to Ontario and goes into hiding. There are the other cases where—and I think there's a couple current on this—the child is taken to Iran and the Iranian government is not part of the Hague Convention and there's no way that you can legally get the child back. I don't know if there's any solution to that.
On cases where the Hague Convention does apply, you raise another interesting question that the country dealing with possession of the child looks to see the 10-year minimum that this person faces—and let us suppose it's a mother who is well-meaning but misdirected on taking the child out of the jurisdiction—and I think a judge might have difficulty. In our jurisprudence we've taken the position, on returning criminals charged with murder to the United States, that we will not extradite unless we get assurance that there will not be an execution. What you raise is a very difficult question. When the child is in a non-Hague recognized state, I don't know what you can do.
On the second question, the severity of the sentence would, I think, play a part in the possession state deciding whether or not to return the child.