Thank you, Mr. Chair.
The Criminal Code contains some provisions that make it possible to take action even if offences are committed outside our territory.
In addition, clause 9 of Bill S-9 talks about the autrefois convict defence, which applies to someone who may have been found guilty abroad. That would not apply in some specific cases. Of course, I'm talking about the autrefois acquit or autrefois convict defence, covered in section 607 of the Criminal Code. It was mentioned that this was so in cases where the foreign trial failed to meet certain basic Canadian legal standards, and where the individual had not served a sentence for those offences despite his or her conviction. What do you mean by “certaines normes juridiques canadiennes de base”? Nowadays, we no longer know what that means.